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TIL two 16-yr-old Canadian snowboarders went missing near a B.C. ski resort. A helicopter found them with only a bit of frostnip to their hands ; they had managed to build a shelter and make a fire fueled in part by homework one of the teens had in his backpack.

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XEGBX TIL there were two unrelated Exorcist prequels released by Warner Bros in the mid-2000's. Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist was directed by Paul Schrader and released in 2005, but WB re-tooled it into a more marketable film, Exorcist: The Beginning, in 2004. Both were critical and financial flops.
QNd9d TIL I learned the blocks used to build the Pyramids of Giza weigh an average of 2.5 tons, some blocks weigh up to 50 tons!
Z8AMD TIL that the 1911 obituary of American millionaire Frank Work contained his rant against the arranged marriages of American heiresses to British noblemen for dowry. He thought it should be a 'hanging offence' - the waste of American money paying off private debts in exchange for aristocratic titles.
OR71 TIL over 300 incidents of child murder occurred in 1700s Germany and Austria due to incidents of “suicide by proxy”. Religious people were killing young children in order to have the government execute them so they could get into heaven.
QJpAa TIL leading up to Pearl Harbor the US lost track of Japanese aircraft carriers, observed the Japanese consulate burning documents, encountered hostile submarines near Hawaii and had reports of a cluster of aircraft 137 miles north of Oahu, yet only realized an attack was under way when bombs dropped