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TIL: Honey can be used for healing wounds

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ADvX7 TIL in the first test of ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet, the connection crashed after the first two of five characters were transmitted
AvKB TIL that many parents mistakenly fed their children dog food after a pet snack pack featuring a well known kids cartoon was put next to chips in a supermarket
loAdV TIL in 1958, Frank Herbert was talking with his friend from the Quileute tribe, whose lands were being destroyed due to excessive logging. The man said white people were "gonna turn this whole planet into a wasteland, just like North Africa." This inspired Herbert to write Dune.
j6Rrj TIL many keyboards in Japan have small space bars to make room for a language switching key
kJA7d TIL that in Alaska, a slow driving motorist with more than five cars behind them must pull over and let the cars pass