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

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0b1v TIL: We don’t actually know who named Earth.
yQw7V TIL (PAINFULLY) that a common black and yellow wasp can sting straight through multiple layers of decent quality toilet tissue. Don't make the mistake of pitying them once they are caught like I did...
yVLVJ TIL NASA has a fully fleshed plan for establishing a permanent base on Venus, made in 2015 and codenamed HAVOC the plan calls for the creation of floating stations 50km from the surface of Venus
PYAVJ TIL Since 1900 a London park has a Memorial to those that have died in heroic acts of self sacrifice and who might otherwise be forgotten. Each heroic act is listed such as, "Drowned in attempting to save a poor girl who had thrown herself into the canal".
16pAP TIL: of Adam Worth, who fought with the Union in the US Civil war, then went on to a life of crime in Europe, where he earned the nickname “the Napoleon of Crime”, and served as the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes’ great nemesis James Moriarity.