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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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4OxX TIL that in 2011, Norway went through a nationwide butter shortage, where smugglers would often get caught smuggling butter and online auctions for one packet of butter reached as high as $77.
WkXJ4 TIL that bananas are actually berries, and strawberries and raspberries are not berries at all. I feel betrayed
r80o TIL the author of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” was an experimental test subject of the CIA’s MK Ultra program.
kR9m TIL the Make-A-Wish Foundation granted 12-year-old leukemia survivor Declan McLean-Pauley’s wish to blow a bunch of shit up
W7YQ8 TIL that when a Concorde crashed in 2000, it came within 30 feet of hitting a plane carrying the French president