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TIL about a 13-month-old Canadian baby that got out of her house in the middle of the night and froze solid. She thawed and ended up surviving.

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nMOo TIL that there is no scientific basis for the Kübler-Ross “DABDA” model, aka the 5 stages of grief. The author herself insisted the stages didn’t all happen and not in any order. The model was embraced in pop culture because humans are naturally predisposed to explanations that tell a simple story.
e0goL TIL there have been over a million medically supervised injections (of recreational drugs) in a single clinic, without a single death.
QNaRp Today I learned the first US Woman to be an Electrical Engineer (Edith Clarke, born 1883) designed the massive Hoover Dam turbine systems
0MGM TIL: The maximum salary for a player in the WNBA is $105,000 a year
QNPnX TIL that Signal Fire by Snow Patrol, which appeared in trailers for Spider-Man 3, as well as the end credits, was originally wrote for use in Shrek the Third.