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TIL the oldest Inn in the world has been in business 1300 years and in the same family for 52 generations

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6oel TIL nearly 200 years before turducken became popular, there was the Rôti Sans Pareil: a bustard stuffed with a turkey-goose-pheasant-chicken-duck-guinea fowl-teal-woodcock-partridge-plover-lapwing-quail-thrush-lark-ortolan-bunting and garden warbler, the last being just big enough to hold an olive.
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Brxbe TIL that honeybees didn't exist in California until 1853, and even though bees in general are critical to the environment, honeybees specifically are far more important for agriculture of a few specific crops.
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