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TIL a Canadian 2 ½ year-old toddler froze solid in -22ºC weather after being locked out of her house for five hours, yet she was warmed and revived by doctors.

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J1nX4 TIL Korean women in the 19th century who had sons would openly expose their breasts as a sign of pride
0w9Wp TIL NASA's Opportunity Rover has been in operation on Mars since January, 2004...a few weeks before Mark Zuckerberg launched the social networking site Facebook.
WkWl8 TIL Despite being land locked countries, a Czech-Austrian inventor was the first to use a screw type propeller to power a ship. His ship, Civetta of 48 gross register tons, reached a speed of about 6 knots (11 km/h). This was the first ship successfully driven by an Archimedes screw-type propeller.
R7Mo7 TIL Adventurer Robert Swan's eye color altered permanently from dark to light blue after walking through a hole in the ozone layer during his trek to the South Pole.
e0lDk TIL that Pope Formosus’ corpse was dug up from its grave and tried in 897 by his 2nd successor Pope Stephen IV for “perjury and having acceded to the papacy illegally.” His corpse, propped up on a throne and appointed a deacon as his “advocate,” was found guilty, rendering his papacy null and void.