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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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P1QBJ TIL that "The Last Broadcast" a found footage horror movie predating the "Blair Witch Project" was estimated to be made for $1,000 or less and made $4 million at the box office.
1aEKP TIL Architect Oscar Niemeyer and urbanist Lúcio Costa invented an urban plan for Brasilia and structures that would attempt to micromanage the daily activity of human life. The unabashed goal was to create the space that would birth “the new Brazilian citizen”
JKYm TIL that 90 year old vet who has been arrested three times for feeding the homeless started the program to honor his dead wife in 1991
OojpX TIL: Scrum methodology was introduced by Asian men, Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka, in their 1986 Harvard Business Review article, 'The New New Product Development Game'.
jgAM TIL of John Jones, a caver who became trapped alone while navigating head first down a narrow section of cave. The rescue operation failed mid-way and he died in the cave. His body remains there today.