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TIL: British fast success story in short

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rR1a1 TIL in 1965, 4 CIA employees were fired because they started a “free-for-all food fight in the cafeteria.”
EWe0 TIL 5000 year old honey is perfectly safe to eat
QNWZ9 TIL there’s a 1400 sq mile island off the coast of Yemen that’s described as “the most alien place on earth,” and 37% of its plant species are endemic.
ne5Y9 TIL that millions of years ago, antarctica used to be a temperate rainforest
dD7AB TIL A group of conspirators intending to assassinate Easter Roman Emperor Nikephoros Phokas entered his bedchamber at night disguised in women's clothing. Initially the got scared because he wasn't in his bed as expected: an ascetic army veteran, Nikephoros liked sleeping on the floor