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TIL that the mild and much more common first stage of frostbite, the numbing and reddening of the skin, is called frostnip.

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DkQV TIL the Air Force made Richard Dean Anderson an honorary Brigadier General for his role as Jack O'Neill on Stargate SG-1
4Om6 TIL that houseflies buzz in the key of F.
LQOn0 TIL that Mark DeFriest, known as the Houdini of Florida, is a prisoner in the Florida State Prison. His original four-year sentence has since developed into 34 years for 13 escape attempts, 7 of them successful, and hundreds of disciplinary reports.
vP6KD TIL in Singapore, if no one from a race has been president for the last five terms, the election is reserved for that race
b6maQ TIL of Gottlob Bumann, a Geman Omantic poet who hated a cetain lette of the alphabet between Q and S. He avoided it in all of the 130 poems he wote and efused to say his last name in eveyday convesation.