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TIL that during the final stages of freezing to death, you may feel very overheated and take off your clothes before "terminal burrowing", which is also known as "hide-and-die syndrome".

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nelMo TIL that Sneha Anne Philip is officially considered to be one of the victims of 9/11. Being a doctor who lived nearby, it's believed that she died trying to help the injured at Ground Zero. There's just one problem: no-one saw her there. Or, indeed, anywhere at all. She went missing on 9/10.
R7OVw TIL that collective punishments is a war crime, as stated in the Hague Regulations and the Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions.
09nN TIL that every year around a dozen Japanese tourists have psychiatric breakdowns caused by French rudeness
ZwQ TIL that the novel Fahrenheit 451 was first published in Playboy magazine.
W9pY TIL “tunnel of love” boat rides were created as an excuse for couples to have physical contact in a time when holding hands in public was frowned upon