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

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d8rb8 TIL about Doug Hegdahl, a POW during the Vietnam War, who memorized the names, dates of capture, method of capture and personal details of 256 fellow POWs to the tune of "Old MacDonald Had A Farm." He can still recite it to this day.
kOdD1 TIL Canadians pronounce the letter Z "zed." Moreover, I come to find out Americans are the ONLY ones who pronounce it like "zee."
oy9Y TIL King Charles VI of France and four lords dressed as wild men in costumes made of oil pitch-covered linen and hemp. His idiot or genius brother thrust a torch too closely in an attempt to identify them, thereby setting the men ablaze. The king was aside flirting with a lady and only he survived.
Bgbxx TIL the oldest known tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments sold for $5.04 million. The roughly 1,500-year-old stone was discovered in 1913, but went on to be used as paving outside someone's house for three decades until a scholar bought it in 1943 and recognized its historic importance.
ol1Y TIL that when Fibonacci created his number sequence, he didn’t realise it described all sorts of aspects in nature.