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TIL Elizabeth Swaney, a relatively amateur skier, was able to qualify for the 2018 Winter Olympics halfpipe by accumulating points at qualifying events leading up to the Olympics by doing flawless yet completely simple routines, outscoring opponents who often would crash in their more-ambitious runs

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MvWV TIL When Swedish Radiologist Anna Bågenholm woke up after the most severe case of hypothermia ever survived at the time (56.7 °F), she was angry with her colleagues for saving her because she was paralyzed from the neck down. She later recovered from paralysis and apologized.
ke71 TIL Chris Kyle, known as the most lethal sniper in United States history, lost his life at 38 when he tried to help Eddie Ray Routh, a veteran suffering with PTSD, by taking him to a gun range. Instead, Routh turned his gun on Kyle and killed him.
mxrPM TIL a bumblebee will stick up a middle leg if it’s annoyed by your presence, which means “back off!”. Otherwise they are docile to the point that you could usually handle one without negative consequence.
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nea6r TIL The Legend of the Christmas Spider is an Eastern European folktale explaining tinsel on Christmas trees. A poor widow could not afford to decorate her tree. A spider covered it in cobwebs overnight. Morning sunlight turned the webs into gold and silver. They never lived in poverty again.