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TIL that honey never spoils, and edible honey has been found in ancient Egyptian tombs dating back over 3,000 years.

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6E8o7 TIL in 1961 Ronald Reagan released a spoken-word album warning against socialized medicine.
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R7RR7 TIL on a mission to the International Space Station in January 2015, scientists tested the regenerative properties of planarian worms in zero gravity. One specimen actually grew a second head through spontaneous regeneration and when researchers tried amputating it, both heads grew back.
rNB9x TIL that Veronica Hamel, public defender Davenport in Hill Street Blues, was the model in the last ever tv cigarette ad in the United States.
Z1jB TIL Sheriff Buford Pusser responded to a burglary call and killed the armed wife of a mob boss; the mob boss exacted revenge by killing the Sheriff’s wife, and the Sheriff hung up his gun and badge to take down the mob all on his own one by one over the next five years in brutal and articulate ways