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TIL 20-50% of hypothermia fatalities are due to paradoxical undressing, or removing clothes due to disorientation.

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X0wy8 TIL at the decisive Battle of Grandson in 1476, the entire Castle Grandson garrison surrendered only to be summarily hung from a rope and dragged through the lake until they drowned. They were executed just before Swiss reinforcements arrived.
ZlAG TIL a student at Harvard felt as his literature professor was giving him unfair grades. To prove it, he turned in a paper by George Orwell, the author of 1984 and Animal Farm. After the paper only received a B- he decided to study something else. Years later he would write Jurassic Park.
YpyjA TIL the Sun accounts for 99.86% of the total mass of the Solar System
VydB TIL in medieval Europe “barber-butchers” were barbers that practiced surgery as well, a profession ranging from amputations to haircuts. The red and white ‘barber swirl’ in front of most barber shops today signifies blood and bandages which was common in their trade.
YGdW TIL that by the 17th century in Europe it was a well-established fact that the only people who smiled broadly, in life and in art, were the poor, the lewd, the drunk and the innocent.