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TIL of therapeutic hypothermia, the practice of intentionally inducing hypothermia in resuscitated patients for an extended period of time. It has been shown to reduce the chances of brain damage in cardiac arrest sufferers, and is one of the greatest advancements in the science of resuscitation.

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lon4r TIL Since 1948 there has been a group of ladies at Arlington National Cemetery that has attended every funeral to support and comfort families, or to be there only one that attends to ensure no one is ever buried alone
GY7GG TIL, that in 1917, British forces were not ready for a head on assault of Jerusalem, so British intelligence created a plan where cigarettes would be air dropped by recon planes for the Ottomans everyday up until the day of the assault, where they instead dosed all the cigarettes with opium.
p8dOp TIL that Matthew McConaughey has been teaching filmmaking at UT Austin since 2016.
x9jg TIL that the creator of the viral online hit series Bad Lip Reading discovered his talent when his mother went suddenly deaf and had to learn to lip read. He realized that whenever he tried, all he came up with was jibberish. He soon turned his failure into successful videos seen by millions.
W7k7Y TIL In 1989 A gas pipeline alongside the Trans-Siberian Railway exploded just as two trains passed each other simultaneously, killing 575 people. Known as the Ufa Train disaster