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TIL Anna Bagenholm survived the lowest body temperature ever recorded at 56.7 F (13.7 C). She had been skiing when she fell through a frozen stream and became stuck for 80 minutes. Despite being clinically dead, she made a full recovery and is now working at the same hospital that saved her life.

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18dD TIL during the late 1800s, a baboon was employed by the railroad as a signalman and he never once made a mistake during its career, and worked for the railroad until his death.
e07xk TIL in Victorian England they used to take group photos with their dead ones and, given the long exposure time, the dead were often seen more sharply than the slightly-blurred living, because of their lack of movement
d81YE TIL of John R. Brinkley, an American Quack who convinced men to let him sew goat testicles into their abdomen as a way to increase male virility, as well as a cure all for all sorts of ailments and disease.
gMybX TIL: Port Royal, Jamaica, a pirate safe haven in the Caribbean slid into the ocean largely intact during a massive earthquake. Nautical archeologists can now explore entire sections of old buildings underwater.
RY5Q TIL billionaire Warren Buffet ($66.7 billion net worth) still lives in the same house he bought in 1958 for $31,500.