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TIL honey can last for thousands of years and has an unlimited shelf life. In 2015, archeologists found 3,000-year-old honey in Egypt that was perfectly edible.

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yQBLe TIL of the 1975 Ebbin brothers coincidental tragedy in Bermuda. Both Erskine and Neville were 17, riding the same moped, and hit by the same taxi carrying the same passenger a year apart. Considering the population and landmass of Bermuda back then, the odds of it happening were not that small.
yQ7Pa TIL of Freud's patient diagnosed with hysteria based on menstrual symptoms. A surgeon friend claimed he could cure it with nose surgery. Surgery botched, left her hemorrhaging and disfigured. Freud claimed her hemorrhage is "wish-bleeding" caused by a hysterical longing for the affection of others.
Q9xL TIL when the KGB tried to blackmail Indonesian President Achmed Sukarno with videotapes of the president having sex with Russian women disguised as flight attendants, Sukarno wasn’t upset. He was pleased. He even asked for more copies of the video to show back in his country.
yQZNM TIL One of the few remaining trams which survived the Hiroshima bomb has been restored to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the attack. It has been repainted its original colours - blue and grey - and has video testimony from survivors on board
8a5eX TIL that sperms don't swim. We have been wrong for the last 350 years. Using 3D microscopy technology were able to mathematically reconstruct the rapid movement of the sperm. The sperm body spins at the same time that the tail rotates around the swimming direction. Sperm drills into the fluid.