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TIL that snails can sleep for three years.

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nyN7 TIL in 1992 Arnold Schwarzenegger bought the first civilian Hummer, in 2003 he spent $21,000 to convert one it to burn hydrogen trying to jump start the building of hydrogen refueling plants.
LkErv TIL the story of Isaac Woodward. He was an African American WWII veteran who was badly beaten at a bus stop in 1946 for asking the driver to stop at a bathroom, blinding him in both eyes. His case brought the treating of veterans to light and the beginnings of the civil rights movement in the 1950’s
rlP1 TIL War elephant drivers had a chisel and a hammer in order to cut the spinal cord of an elephant on the battlefield if it caused too mutch damage in its own lines.
JYGe4 TIL "larger crocodiles can go for over a year without eating a meal. In extreme situations, crocodiles appear to be able to shut down and live off their own tissue for a long period of time."
0ADL TIL children born in Iceland to Icelandic women and American or British servicemen were often given the last name Hansson meaning “his son” as their fathers were either unknown or had left Iceland.