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Short answer: Maybe for a while.

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db89 TIL a day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus
kOk6E TIL: When interviewed, a 70 year old man, who was once a feral child that lived alone with wolves in the mountains between the ages of 7 and 19 stated "he was disappointed in human nature and wished he could return to the mountains and leave society"
ZEoD TIL Instead of sending labor over to China or Bangladesh, manufacturers have chosen to forcibly employ up to 2.4 million incarcerated people in the United States. Chances are high that if a product you’re holding says it is ‘American Made,’ it was made in an American prison.
4k4P6 TIL of the Battle of Caribou, in which neither the US nor Canada lost any troops due to combat - but a couple of armed Canadian lumberjacks were injured by bears.