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TIL honey doesn't spoil even after thousands of years, like pots of it found still preserved in Egyptian tombs. It is highly acidic and low in moisture making it inhospitable for anything that tries to grow and bees have an enzyme that leaves hydrogen peroxide as a byproduct of breaking nectar down.

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QNkVX TIL If you heat the diamond in the open air, it will begin to melt and burn at around 700 degrees Celsius (1,292 degrees Fahrenheit). Burning a diamond without oxygen, however, will make it change into graphite (a crystalline form of carbon) before transforming into a fluid.
P1YVE TIL about the Royal Grand Knockout Tournament 1987 which featured several members of the British royal family (Prince Edward, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew, Sarah Ferguson) and celebrities (Meat Loaf, Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, John Travolta) competing on a special It’s a Knockout course.
G8O7 TIL the September 11th massacre of 9 AD in the Teutoburg Forest was literally an inside job. The Romans lost over 10,000 to an insider who betrayed them.
xVXa1 TIL that between 2002 and 2014, Norwegian police only fired their weapons 33 times. In 2007, no shots at all were fired.
vmNL TIL Charles Manson, hoping to incite racial wars, stole his victim’s wallet and had it planted in the restroom of a gas station in what he thought was a black neighborhood; instead of inciting Helter Skelter as he had hoped, it lay there for months until discovered by a cleaning attendant.