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TIL: Honey can be used for healing wounds

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lonvV TIL During negotiations for truce between North and South Korea, both parties would try to bring a bigger national flag than the other to each meeting. This continued until a special meeting was called to address the size of the flags, as they could no longer fit in the room.
95m6 TIL the TV special “Australia’s Naughtiest Home Videos” was cancelled while it was still airing when the network’s owner called the studio and told them “Get that shit off the air!”
1ax1P TIL There was an old English settlement established on the island of Roanoke, North Carolina in the late 1500s. The governor of the colony traveled back to England, and when he returned several years later, found Roanoke deserted. No trace of the colonists were ever found.
5rrk TIL that John Lennon once called an ‘emergency board meeting’ of the Beatles in order to inform his bandmates that he’d realized, while tripping on acid, that he was the second coming of Jesus.
ObkY TIL there is a Danish rocketry club currently aiming to become the first amateur group to launch a person into space.