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TIL Scientists routinely run naked in -100 degree (F) temperatures. They have learned they can survive about 3 minutes, and breathe through a snorkel that heats up the air so they don't freeze their lungs.

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oMMr TIL if a female ferret does not have sex for a year, she will die
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