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TIL The longest recorded time without sleep is 264 hours (11+ days). It is not clear how long humans can survive without sleep. After 3-4 nights you can start to hallucinate.

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Y7PAx TIL some wineries age their wine underwater (though it's illegal in the U.S. due to being “unadulated,” as it is deemed to be stored in unsanitary conditions)
9Y6nM TIL of the War Horse Memorial—a statue honoring the nearly one million horses mules, and donkeys that lost their lives during the First World War. The statue features a horse named Poppy who possesses a gaunt physique and barbed wire wrapped around its hooves.
M7G70 TIL the people who wrote The Oregon Trail changed "Indians" to "riders" and changed "tomahawked" to "knifed" in order to be more culturally sensitive.
e0Dp5 TIL That Presidential candidate Andrew Jackson was the first Democrat ever to be associated with the donkey symbol. His opponents during the election of 1828 tried to label him a "jackass" for his populist beliefs. Jackson was entertained by the notion and ended up using it on his campaign posters.
VM8BG TIL The US convened a Coin Task Force to address a shortage in coinage. They determined there isn’t a shortage per se, instead too much of the $48.5 billion in US are not in circulation.