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TIL Alexander the Great was embalmed in honey.

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vPpkj TIL Mel Blanc, the voice actor of Bugs Bunny and other Looney Tunes Characters, also voiced Barney Rubble from the Flintstones
N7dvM TIL 70% of Americans are either overweight or obese
WkoGB TIL Nurse Sandra Clarke was making her rounds when a frail patient made a simple request, "will you stay with me." When she returned from her rounds she discovered he died. Sandra became the founder of "No One Dies Alone," a volunteer program that provides dying patients someone to be with them.
9Yn7r TIL about Luna 15, the failed soviet lunar probe that launched three days before Apollo 11, while Neil Armstrong was taking the first steps on the moon, the soviets were trying to regain control of the probe were ultimately they failed causing luna 15 to promptly crash into a mountain
ADKad TIL a 2014 study found that you could increase the survival rate of a patient suffering with ARDS by 26% (The condition responsible for killing patients with Coronavirus) by simply having them lay on their stomach for 16-18hr a day while on ventilation.