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TIL Honey doesn’t spoil. You could feasibly eat 3000 year old honey.

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gOaL TIL that Fox and Lucasfilm only permitted Mel Brooks to make Spaceballs after he agreed to not produce action figures or other merchandising
XEvZ8 TIL that in ancient Rome, clairvoyants acted as civil servants. Augures, or auspices, interpreted the signs of birds to determine whether the gods favoured everything from elections, wars, even whether or not to hold certain ceremonies. Nothing could move forward without the auspices approval.
MLWa TIL it is illegal to smoke in cars with children in Arkansas, California, Louisiana, Maine, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Utah and Vermont. The minimum age of the child varies according to the state.
wLPZ6 TIL that singer Marvin Gaye was fatally shot the day before his birthday, by his own father (a Christian minister), by a gun that Marvin had gifted to him. Marvin was suicidal and physically hit his father because it was established that his father would kill any of his children who might do so.
mxn0E TIL although the TV show "Friends" ended in 2004, the six main cast members still receive a yearly check of $20 million in royalties alone.