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TIL Australia has snow, ski resorts, the Australian Alps and a higher rate of hypothermia deaths than Sweden.

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Arjx TIL Canadian child killer Peter Woodcock was given intense treatment over many years, deemed safe, and given a weekend pass.Within an hour he had murdered somebody. Claimed treatment “served only to make him more adept at manipulating others”
oBR4W TIL That Bill Gates (Net Worth $90B) has donated roughly $50 Billion Dollars in his lifetime. And plans to give away most of his money to charity after death.
pBKp TIL Judith Barsi (Voice of Ducky from The Land Before Time) was brutally shot and killed along side her mother by her father at the age of 10.
ObWL TIL that in 120, Genghis Khan was shot in the neck during a battle, and asked the defeated army who had shot “his horse”, trying to downplay the injury. The archer voluntarily confessed to shooting Genghis Khan and refused to beg for mercy, so the Khan spared him, turning him into a great general.
X0wQD TIL President Millard Fillmore taught elementary school while clerking for a county judge, and he also married his own beloved teacher, Abigail Powers