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TIL: Honey can be used for healing wounds

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b9Xn4 TIL Ex-President Ronald Reagan occupied the 34th-floor Fox Plaza office building (where parts of "Die Hard" were shot) til 2001, breaking tradition by using a private office over a federal one. When Reagan aides toured the 34th-floor in 1989, it was littered with shells/broken glass from "Die Hard".
xwXb TIL that the extra years on sentencing beyond death (e.g. “life without parole plus 1,000 years”) is both a symbolic way for a judge to condemn someone as truly guilty and console a victim, as well as a practical way to make it more difficult for someone to get out prison
vPeG7 TIL the only fertile desert in the world is the Tharparkar desert in Pakistan
drxd TIL A black community in OH went 50 years without running water…until one day, a white family moved in.
BgEAW TIL - The Jetsons was originally cancelled after only one season, and instead, ABC re-tooled the show as a Sci-Fi partridge family spin-off (Partridge Family, 2200 AD).