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TIL - Snails can sleep for up to 3 years during periods of drought.

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v15MK TIL In 1987 Corona was hit by the piss scandal. A rumour that Mexicans brewers were peeing in beer heading to the US market. The rumour was traced back to a Heineken distributor.
E8wW TIL the world’s first licensed armless pilot is also the first armless black-belt.
MRKK TIL in 2013, a NY Times Reporter discovered that a 1-liter saline IV bag (sterilized salt water) cost $.44 to $1.07 to produce. By the time it was billed to a patient, however, the cost increased between 100% and 1000%.
nWdQY TIL: that despite the controversy over Ada Lovelace being the "first programmer," she was the first to realize that the Analytical Engine—the earliest concept of a computer—could act on things beyond numbers, like music or symbols, marking her as a visionary who saw the full potential of computers.
78Kr TIL Rochus Misch, age 95, is the last surviving person to have known Hitler personally and witnessed his suicide. He worked as his personal bodyguard, courier and phone operator in the Fuhrerbunker, and still lives in the same house in Berlin where he moved upon his release from the Soviets in 1954