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TIL that there’s a construction themed park where you can operate real heavy machinery for fun

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Px4e TIL that honey is the only food that will not rot. A jar of honey may remain edible for over 3000 years.
nexB7 TIL of Europe's only legal private army, the Atholl Highlanders, they're not part of the British Army and instead under the command of the Duke of Atholl, the head of Clan Murray
7rgVP TIL That after winning the battle of Kleidion in 1014, the Byzantine Emperor Basil II took an estimated 14,000-15,000 prisoners, and punished them by sorting them into groups of a 100, then blinded 99 men in each one and left a single man in each with one eye so that he could lead the others home.
5YXoP TIL that in 1945 Walt Disney employed Salvador Dali to work on a short animation feature, that was stopped for lack of finances. 58 years later the project was revived and completed by Disney.
jNKeX TIL of the "The Norwegian Rocket Incident", when in 1995, Russian officials briefly misinterpreted a Norwegian scientific rocket to be a nuclear attack. It showed the dangers of accidental nuclear war even when the threat of military confrontation between the US and Russia was at an all-time low.