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TIL Snails can sleep for 3 years

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wolyP TIL: Sarah Jessica Parker was the Second Broadway Annie
L8d9 TIL Whales have accents and regional dialects
BQJx TIL that Patagonia (clothing company) has a “bail fund” that is used when an employee is arrested while participating in a nonviolent expressions of activism for environmental causes.
woEl8 TIL that the first political assassination in Roman history took place in 133 B.C when tribune Tiberius Gracchus tried to redistribute land to the poor, and was promptly beaten to death with wooden chairs by the Senate
oBrbY TIL on 1945, when Bess Myerson became the first Jewish candidate to win the Miss America contest, organisers tried to get her to change her name, sponsors dropped her and country clubs refused her because she was Jewish. In response, she toured the USA with the Anti-Defamation League.