Preservation Facts

Wine will spoil if exposed to light; hence tinted bottles.

In 1974, canned food from a boat that sank in 1865 was tested by chemists and was found to be still safe to eat.

Honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found 3,000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still perfectly edible.

Instead of McDonald's tearing down a ~230-year-old Georgian mansion, citizens of a small NY town forced them to renovate it instead, resulting in a uniquely historic franchise location.