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TIL: Honey can be used for healing wounds

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OMd7 TIL that the former Soviet Union has its own internet domain .su and access to google.su requires a login and password
P1b8G TIL that after scoring the winning goal in the 1993 League Cup final, Arsenal player Steve Morrow fell off the shoulders of teammate Tony Adams. The fall broke Morrow’s arm and he missed the rest of the season
ADYpw TIL 20th Century Fox made so much off of Return of the Jedi that they were looking for a tax write-off, so they paid for the entirety of a film with little faith behind it: Revenge of the Nerds.
nr7 TIL a man proposed to his girlfriend by contacting a level-developer to make a Portal 2 custom level that led into a wedding chapel in which Ellen McLain (the voice of GLaDOS) popped the question.
606W TIL that in the 1960s Chrysler developed a car powered by a gas turbine engine. It could rev to 44,500 rpm, sounded like a vacuum cleaner and could run on diesel, petrol, kerosine, jet fuel and as the President of Mexico proved, tequila.