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TIL Honey "never" spoils. Archaeologists have found pots of honey in Egyptian tombs that are over 3,000 years old and still edible.

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78VJP TIL that humans have evolved to act more selflessly when being watched. This will happens even when you are alone but can see a depiction of two eyes.
4eBa TIL Nicotine is the tobacco plant’s evolutionary defence mechanism, which makes insects sick when they eat the plant, thus saving the plant from being eaten!
8klP TIL that the Oakland Police Department spent $15,000 to modify the tailpipes of their Harley motorcycles to make them LOUD.
gMxJy TIL of milk sickness which is a poisoning that affects individuals who ingest milk, other dairy products, or meat from a cow that has fed on the white snakeroot plant, which contains the poison tremetol.
dyLE TIL Congo’s president Mobutu publicly stated that “It’s okay to steal a little”, which was consistent with the national mentality that whatever the country had was also yours, as long it is just a little.