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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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jNVbn TIL When babies are born in Thailand, it is common for people to say the baby is ugly. There is a superstition that attractive babies will be taken by evil spirits. It is impolite to say positive things about the baby.
P1e7V TIL: Irish playwright Brendan Behan wrote a song called 'the laughing boy' about Irish revolutionary Michael Collins. Later it was translated into Greek and became the unofficial anthem against the military junta.
E1lYw TIL of the theremin, an instrument played without any physical contact which was invented in 1920.
Y7PeP TIL of the PrOP-M. A twin set of rovers sent to Mars 26 years before Pathfinder.
9w7kB TIL Seiryu Miharashi Eki - The GHOST STATION with no entrances or exits built solely to remind people of the importance of nature and to admire the landscape.