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TIL hot water and jello is a treatment for hypothermia

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VBME4 TIL That the mirror doctors are portrayed as wearing on their head was meant to be worn over one of the doctor's eyes when in use.
LQVKp TIL during WWI Momčilo Gavrić at the age of 8 lost his entire family to a heinous war crime, he then enlisted in a nearby artillery unit and identified the location of the enemy soldiers that killed his family, then participated in the bombardment that wiped out that entire enemy unit
woV0W TIL That the reason everything around you seems so quiet when there's snow on the ground is because snow absorbs up to 60% of all noise
xB0o TIL George Holliday, the man who filmed Rodney King being beaten, met King only once, months later, randomly at a gas station. King thanked him for saving his life.
p8mdp TIL there are about 2,200 miles of navigable canals in the United Kingdom requiring many tiny locks to be manually operated and many of them no wider than 7 feet (2.1m). Started for use as commercial transport in the early 19th century it has now turned into a leisure highway of "narrowboats."