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TIL the honey made from rhododendrons has intoxicating effects and is called “Mad Honey.” It has been used as a medicine and as a drug.

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4kKk5 TIL that Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on July 4th, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Adams’ last words were ‘Thomas Jefferson survives’, but Jefferson died a few hours earlier.
PYkGL TIL Humans have not set foot on the moon since 11 December 1972, almost 50 years.
VOQ8 TIL the famous quote from the movie Apollo 13 “Houston, we have a problem” was changed for creative purposes from the actual phrase said by astronaut Jack Swigert, “Houston, we’ve had a problem.”
N7xn6 TIL the female twin of a bull almost always becomes an infertile intersex cow called a Freemartin
4XMAg TIL that introverts tend to have larger, thicker gray matter in their prefrontal cortex — a region of the brain that is linked to abstract thought and decision-making — while extroverts have less gray matter (2012 study by Randy Buckner of Harvard University)