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TIL a Mellified man is a person mummified in honey. They would often eat honey till they died, buried in honey, dug up a century later to be eaten for medicinal purposes

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9wOGm TIL Saul Goodman's character (from Breaking Bad & Better Call Saul) was inspired by a real-life attorney Ron Bell, whose ads could, at the time, be found plastered across Albuquerque and airing on its local TV. Similar to Goodman, Bell had his own catchphrase: "Ring the Bell!"
0g45 TIL that the palm plant most commonly known as the GIVE AND TAKE in Belize, Chrysophila argentea, Has an anti-coagulant poison in it’s needle like bark. The only known remedy to stop the bleeding and infection is the sap located underneath the bark itself.
aw5L TIL Alexander the Great expressed in his last will and testament the desire to see “transplant of populations from Asia to Europe and in the opposite direction from Europe to Asia, in order to bring the largest continent to common unity and to friendship by means of intermarriage and family ties.”
wLKro TIL WW1 American soldier Henry Johnson, known as the "Black Death", suffered 21 severe wounds while repelling a German raid. He survived while killing 4 and wounding 10-20 in hand to hand combat.
rRWkW TIL that EA Poe's revenge story "The Cask of Amontillado" was part of a literary feud. Poe's rival Thomas Dunn English wrote a novel, "1844," featuring a drunken wife-abuser based on Poe; Poe, in turn, used details from that novel as the setting for his own murder fantasy about English.