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TIL the world's oldest chewing gum is 9,000 years old

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DnEj TIL Activia was sued for falsely claiming to be a health food.
4XyZg TIL that at Ford's Theatre a portrait of George Washington is hung on the box where President Abraham Lincoln was shot. At the time, there was no official presidential seal or symbol, so owner John T. Ford hung the portrait there, as a symbol of the office.
ADawd TIL the Queen bee is too fat to fly after being pregnant, so when the worker bees want her to relocate the hive they chase her around the hive for week until she’s skinny enough to fly.
bYw7 TIL possums do not actually “play” dead. In fact, they pass out from being shocked.
wrP1 TIL, a parchment manuscript was erased by a 13th-century monk to write a Christian liturgical text. The erased manuscript was originally written by Archimedes and contained some of the fundamentals of modern calculus, which wouldn’t be developed for almost another 2,000 years.