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TIL Snails can sleep for 3 years

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78d5L TIL that during Prohibition in the 1920s, the U.S. government deliberately ordered industrial alcohol to be poisoned to scare people from drinking it. Bootleggers, however, stole and resold this alcohol anyway. It's estimated this federal program killed at least 10,000 American citizens.
7mgX TIL a linguist in Minnesota spoke only Klingon to his son for the first three years of his life, as an experiment in language acquisition.
WkGm9 TIL that the south-asian country of Bhutan is carbon-negative, meaning it absorbs carbon dioxide and spits out oxygen.
EJoo TIL that Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Tom Hanks have yearly colonoscopys together, and have a sleepover the night before.
9YwED TIL Vancouver's Downtown Eastside is so riddled with drugs even the rats overdose.