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TIL the Law and Order 'sound' includes 500 Japanese men

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OYPL TIL While being tasty, honey is also one of natures most effective aticeptics killing drug resistant bacteria in addition to most normal kinds. Honey also keeps its properties for thousands of years requiring only to be heated up and used as normal.
R5kMj TIL about space junk collectors
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yVBde TIL that the children’s choir in “Another Brick in the Wall” was paid with a concert ticket, an album, and a single; their school received £1,000. Only 25 years later, after the copyright law changed and the choir members were tracked down, did they receive royalties.