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TIL that “You’re not dead until you’re warm and dead” - In a Norwegian study, 38% of “dead” hypothermia victims were successfully resuscitated after their core temperatures were brought up

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6ERrW TIL Scientists managed to capture an image of a newborn planet that was still forming in the disk of gas and dust around its star.
QNJod TIL there's a food preserving technology called High Pressure Processing that puts food under 6000 bars of pressure and kills the bacteria by crushing it under the huge pressure, even at cold temperatures. It is widely used for store bought Guacamole.
Br88k TIL Frank Gusenberg, a gangster who was shot 14 times in the St Valentine's Day massacre, refused to identify his killer. His last words were, "I ain't no copper."
RQXl TIL that the word “ok” as we know it today, as a synonym for “alright”, is only about 175 years old. It was originally written as a joke that went viral in 1839 by a Boston editorial writer satirizing people’s bad grammar and use of abbreviations, and was an abbreviation for “oll korrect”.
DQ9Lr TIL: The Oldest Grocery Store in the Americas is in Quebec City