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TIL eating local honey that is made from plants that you're allergic to as a form of symptom relief actually doesn't have that much scientific backing.

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wQkJ TIL China’s only monogamous emperor made the decision to promote monogamy because one of his father’s women murdered his mom. He was hidden because the consort killed the emperor’s heirs in an attempt to gain power. When it was discovered that one had survived, she killed his mom instead.
JYEwv TIL 70% of the human genome is transcribed but only 2% of it codes for proteins; the rest has been known since the 1960's as non-coding RNA or "junk RNA".
b9DnQ TIL Ken Griffey Jr. attempted suicide at the age of 18, right before the start of his Hall of Fame baseball career
VBZVD TIL the Honjo Masamune, considered one of the finest Japanese swords ever made, was taken by US forces after WW2 and never seen again
8aQG TIL that the ratio of insects to humans is 200,000,000:1