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TIL rats can go two weeks without water, longer than camels (3-5 days)!

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Jgy1 TIL that 6 of the 10 windiest US cities are in Massachusetts. And Chicago isn’t even in the top 100.
JY0OQ TIL the word asterisk derives from the Greek asteriskos, meaning “little star", and the symbol has been used by writers to mark sections in text since at least the Second Century BC.
JYm0B TIL a woman gave birth to her own grandchild. 61-year old Cecile Eledge served as the gestational surrogate for her son and his husband, carrying to term a baby created from her son's sperm and her son's sister-in-law's egg. “I just never hesitated,” Eledge said. “It was unconditional love."
j6dMX TIL Massachusetts is the only state that doesn't allow happy hour.
e0Qyn TIL that Turtle Island is a name for North America used by some Indigenous and First Nations people and by some Indigenous rights activists, based on the Iroquois belief that the earth is supported on the back of a gigantic turtle called Hah-nu-nah