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TIL there’s a type of honey called "mad honey," which causes hallucinations. Honey hunters in Nepal make dangerous vertical climbs to harvest it since it sells for $60-80 a pound

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0o5 TIL the very first US Congress passed, and George Washington signed into law, a health insurance mandate.
5nW9 TIL Pope Pius XII declared, at the November 22, 1951, opening meeting of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, that the Big Bang theory does not conflict with the Catholic concept of creation.
R7MRj TIL Bea Arthur from the TV Show "Golden Girls" was a Marine truck driver in WW2 serving in Marine Corps and Navy air stations in Virginia and North Carolina reaching the rank of Staff Sergeant.
NXQBJ TIL about Musca depicta, a depiction of a fly as a conspicuous element of various paintings that was widespread in 15th- and 16th-century European paintings. Its presence has been subject to various interpretations by art historians.
bAxN TIL In 2003 an ER doctor in Idaho saved a patient’s life by performing emergency surgery with a cordless drill in a church parking lot to relieve pressure on his brain caused by internal bleeding.