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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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kORRd TIL that in Iceland men would have to to lift a 100 kg stone to hip height to qualify to work on a fishing boat. Some of the original stones still sit on the beach at Djúpalónssandur. This tradition became the inspiration for lifting the Ardblair Stones in Scotland, Iceland, and Wales.
6ENLl TIL During his 2009 TED talk, Bill Gates opened a jar of mosquitoes saying “Malaria is spread by mosquitoes. I brought some… I’ll let them roam around. There is no reason only poor people should be infected” and waited for about a minute before telling the audience that the bugs were malaria-free.
78e0X TIL that Groundhog Day America was brought to America by German settlers. In the original tradition, a hedgehog was used to predict the weather but was switched to the groundhog which was much easier to come across in the Keystone State.
V8Ok TIL that Tiki Torches were invented by Ernest Raymond Beaumont-Gantt, a native Texan, not the Polynesians.
loDar TIL that the Azerbaijani village of Qırmızı Qəsəbə is the world's only all-Jewish town outside Israel and the USA, and is considered to be the world's last surviving shtetl. Alongside Azerbaijani and Russian, residents also speak Judeo-Tat, the traditional language of the Mountain Jews