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TIL that Costco sells a bulk supply of food that lasts ONE YEAR.

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yVOyp TIL that both the National Air and Space Intelligence Agency + Space Delta 18 (DEL 18) unit both have a Sphinx Symbols which represent their role in analyzing, producing, and servicing Intelligence.
yVoke TIL of Sardinian bitter honey, obtained in October - December from flowers of the strawberry tree (a Mediterranean tree named corbezzolo in Italian). It is used in traditional desserts or paired with cheese, and it's often added to coffee to enhance the bitter aromas
W7JM9 TIL: An underachieving Princeton student wrote a term paper describing how to make a nuclear bomb. It was seized by the FBI
YmyW TIL that the Aztecs fought with a “Macuahuitl” - a wooden sword embedded with prismatic blades made from obsidian, a volcanic glass stone. According to reports from Spanish conquistadors, it was sharp enough to decapitate a man and even a horse.
5YE4k TIL of the chariot race sequence in Ben-Hur (1959): the set was the largest ever built at the time and took over a year and thousands of workers to build; the director's son, a stuntman, almost died; the extras rioted on camera; and the cars filming the race were slower than the horses