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TIL of arctic explorer Peter Freuchen who took a 1000-mile dogsled trip across Greenland, starred in an Oscar-winning film, amputated his own toes, escaped a Nazi death sentence, cut his way out of a blizzard shelter with a knife made from his frozen feces, and won The $64,000 Question game show.

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d80x9 TIL 26 kids were found after being featured in the video for the song "Runaway Train" by Soul Asylum in 1993. The version shown in Australia showed a number of young backpacking tourists. Several of them turned out to be victims of Ivan Milat, the Backpacker Murderer.
M4lA TIL: New Zealand has an official wizard
yVdyw TIL that after the passing of Paul Kalanithi and Nina Riggs, who both chronicled their terminal illnesses, their respective surviving spouses ended up falling in love with each other and are currently together.
womJP TIL That your nose may lose some of its ability to fight off germs in colder temperatures, giving more credence to that old saying of “put some clothes on or you might catch a cold”
XEKME TIL the first huge ammonium nitrate disaster happened 104 years before the Beirut explosion in Faversham, Kent, UK, but was hushed up by authorities during the first world war. 108 people lost their lives and many more were injured.