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TIL about Paradoxical Undressing, a rare symptom of hypothermia where the patient undresses due to vasoconstriction tricking him into thinking that he is hot.

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69LEJ TIL In the early 1970s the submarine USS Halibut was sent on a secret mission to tap a Soviet undersea cable. The cable was quickly found because the Soviets left signs warning fishing vessels not to anchor near it. The operation was successful and the tap wouldn’t be discovered until 1981.
16lp7 TIL Adults who remain in cities after retirement actually live longer on average than those who retire to rural areas.
LkDOZ TIL about the miracle on Dan bus 4 where a mother and her son ran into each other after believing each had died in the Holocaust years earlier.
J17bV TIL that Chris Ballew, best known as the lead singer of The Presidents of the United States of America, released over twenty albums of children’s music under the pseudonym Caspar Babypants.
lo4D5 TIL that in 2014 when impoverished Ivory Coast cocoa farmers were asked what they were growing was made into, they didn’t know. The farmers knew cocoa was some type of food but they had never heard of or tasted chocolate until reporters brought them a chocolate bar to try.