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TIL honey contains hydrogen peroxide (and that's why it's antimicrobial)

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N7gX1 TIL that when Thomas Bopp discovered the comet through a friends telescope in 1995, he notified officials via telegram. The director later laughed and stated "Nobody sends telegrams anymore, by the time that telegram got here, Alan Hale had already e-mailed us three times with updated coordinates."
LG1Q TIL: When Marianne Reddick died, her children announced the news by exulting “ding dong the witch is dead” and then chronicled her child abuse in the most scathing obituary ever printed.
rNKgx TIL: In 1977, George Lucas agreed to cut his pay by $500K in return for merchandising rights. He sold his rights to Disney in 2012 for over $4B.
8lV TIL that an estimated 80% of the women in prison in Pakistan are behind bars because they had failed to prove rape charges and were consequently convicted of adultery
9wVDX TIL most black neighborhoods in Wisconsin are actually prisons.