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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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gyN8 TIL that the Wisconsin state legislature has explicitly defined “toxic substance” in their “Employees’ Right to Know Law” to exclude Lutefisk
LkNNp TIL of Mary Blagg--an early 20th-century astronomer who pioneered the field of lunar nomenclature. She was tasked with naming every discernible feature on the moon, leading her to create a list detailing thousands upon thousands of craters, fissures, and gullies along its surface.
9ewD TIL that in 1942, business leaders in Winnipeg, Canada organized an “If day” where they simulated a Nazi invasion and occupation of the city. The fear generated during the event was a very successful fundraising tool, which managed to raise over 3 million Canadian dollars for the war effort.
XExj8 TIL that an acre was originally a rectangle made up of furlongs, which were the distance a pair of oxen could plow before resting
5V5r TIL Adam Stoddard, an Arizona Detention Officer Who Was Caught On Video Stealing Documents From the Defense Attorney, IN COURT, then Defying a Judges Ruling, Was Never Punished For His Crime & Is doing the Same Job 2 Floors Above the Judge He Defied