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TIL that honey never spoils, and edible honey was found in Egyptian tombs that's over 3,000 years old!

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aEBo TIL Mika Brzezinski, an MSNBC News Anchor, refused to read a report about Paris Hilton’s release from jail on National Television and ranking it over a story on the Iraq War. Then after repeatingly being pressured to do the story, she attempted to light the script on fire on the air.
J1aoV TIL about Charles Mayers a seaman who survived the Halifax explosion. The explosion hurled him several hundred metres in the air and he landed naked on a hill a mile away.
b9kr9 TIL the lead singer of Toto is the son of legendary composer John Williams
VM1WZ TIL that there are tens of giant pyramid hills in the province of Shaanxi, China and they are what you expect to be: they were built for the same reason as the Great Pyramids of Egypt: as a final resting place for ancient kings
V57p TIL there is a correlation to long life spans and intelligence, and it is just as strong as the correlation between smoking and early death