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TIL that people can get high be eating honey made from bees that live near poppy fields.

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8aWE4 TIL of Koča Popović, a Yugoslav politician and Spanish Civil War veteran who is referred to as "The man who saved the Partisans" because of his breakthrough plans during Operation Southeast Croatia and at the Battle of Sutjeska both of which could have led to the annihilation of the resistance.
JY1lm TIL in 2005 Vince McMahon tore both his quads sliding into the ring.
rRwn4 TIL In feudal England, the legal official overseeing a shire was referred to as a reeve. Even though America eventually opted to use the word county instead of shire, the title of the legal official remains today: Shire Reeve... Sheriff.
0ddrj TIL that in 1989, a group of Army Rangers got into a gunfight with the Crips. Somehow, nobody was killed.
J1joB TIL Mastaba, meaning house of stability or house of eternity in Ancient Egyptian, is a type of flat-roofed, rectangular structure constructed out of mudbricks. It was the standard type of tomb in pre-dynastic and early dynastic Egypt for the pharaoh and the social elite, and a precursor to pyramids.