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TIL that the human body can survive up to 60 days without food provided it gets properly hydrated

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Z8pxo TIL Don Henley called paramedics to his home on November 21, 1980, where a 16-year-old girl was found naked and claiming she had overdosed on quaaludes and cocaine. Henley got away with only a contributing to the delinquency of a minor charge and a $2,500 fine.
MegAK TIL Rod Steward used to take cocaine anally, rather than risk destroying his nasal passages.
ANDg4 TIL that in 1984, in Mt. Laurel, NJ (25 minutes northeast of Philadelphia, PA), a man released 120 Italian Wall Lizards around his home to combat an insect problem. The insect problem was not fixed and today there are thousands across the County.
w6A7 TIL The Iron Snail, lives in the Indian Ocean, more than 2,500 metres deep, it is the only known gastropod with a suit of scale armour, the scales and the shell are mineralised with iron sulfide, these snails make a skeleton out of iron, it’s the only animal so far known to do so.
YpOQZ TIL that, at the time of his death aged 97 years and 4 days, Harland Fairweather was the oldest person ever with a living parent. His mother Violent Brown died almost five months later at age 117.