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TIL Supermarket Apples can be a year old (and its okay)

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VMLbk TIL there is a hidden "Hall of Records" carved into Mount Rushmore that contains 16 porcelain enamel tablets describing the project and a short US history. They are kept in a teakwood box, sealed inside a titanium vault.
AD1ZB TIL that there is a Village in Japan whose population decreased from 300 to mere 27 due to depopulation and the locals started using scare-crows to substitute the people who had left or died. These scare-crows are placed everywhere (at bus stops, schools etc.). Today this village has 400 scare-crows
D8Kv TIL 3000 year old honey found in an ancient Egyptian tomb hadn’t spoiled and was still edible.
mPjy TIL that Elon Musk forewarned today’s failed rocket launch, stating “…Orbital Sciences… uses Russian rocket engines that were made in the ’60s…they start with engines that were literally made in the ’60s and, like, packed away in Siberia somewhere.”
W6xL TIL if you delete a photo off facebook (or myspace) the image is still accessible online as they dont remove it from their servers.