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TIL Honey never spoils. A thousand-years-old jar of honey that got preserved can be eaten today.

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YpbJZ TIL about “Anti-Japan Tribalism”—a book by professor Lee Young-Hoon— that argues the official history of the ROK is based on false narratives and that a number of South Korean scholars, journalists, activists, and politicians have been active in creating and spreading anti-Japanese sentiments & lies
MZDa TIL 7 members of an isolated Indian tribe emerged from the Amazon and made contact with people in a village near the Peruvian border because “violent attacks” by outsiders had driven them from the forest. Later, details emerged that their elder relatives were massacred and their houses set on fire.
pgM4 TIL In 2012, the world’s first lab grown burger cost $325,000. By 2015, a lab grown burger only cost $11.36.
BgaRe TIL the only public commercial hovercraft service in the world connects Portsmouth with the Isle of Wight
WDNY TIL: Theodore Roosevelt had a chest tattoo of his family crest. He’s the only President to have one, although Andrew Jackson was rumored to have a tomahawk tattooed on his thigh.