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TIL Honey is the only food that never expires. The same honey that was buried with the pharaohs in Egypt is still considered ‘edible’ by scientists.

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rRG1M TIL that Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull never took a lesson on flute and only started playing it a few months before recording Bouree. (He started relearning decades later after his daughter pointed out that he was doing it wrong.)
p80be TIL about Placobdelloides jaegerskioeldi; a leech known as the Hippo Butt Leech who spends its life attached to the rectums of hippos
6KvY TIL that Mel Brooks is one of twelve people to ever win an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony (an EGOT) and the only person to ever receive those four plus awards from the American Film Institute and the Kennedy Center
B5ed TIL that sugar is added to cigarettes and can account for up to 20% of their weight. This not only makes cigarettes better tasting but also more addictive.
oB4L7 TIL in 2015, Queen Elizabeth II decided to not breed anymore corgis so that she would not leave any behind when she died. Her last corgi died in April 2018