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TIL Koalas sleep 20 hours or more to slow down their metabolism rate and conserve their body energy

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4kalg TIL Maryland's state motto is in Italian. Fatti maschii, parole femine. It literally translates as "Deeds are males, words are females", but the official translation is "Manly deeds, womanly words." In 2017, the State legislature established it to mean "Strong deeds, gentle words."
x6AAw TIL The average human spends 1.5 years on the toilet.
5Z08 TIL the largest purchase ever made on an Amex Black Card was for US$170 million and was made by Chinese billionaire Liu Yiqian, earning him and his family free first class travel for the rest of their lives.
Y85d TIL in 1954 the USSR proposed a dam to the U.S. that would close off the Bering Straight. The Soviets claimed it would block arctic cold currents that flow down over Korea and the Sea of Japan, warming it as much as 30 degrees. The U.S. declined.
vPyk8 TIL That following his NASA career, Homer Hickam, known for the movie October Sky, about his teenage exploration of rocketry, became a successful dinosaur hunter, and has discovered, or has helped to discover, 5 of the 40 fossilized T-Rex skeletons ever found.