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TIL in 2017 a 4-yr-old girl in Siberia awoke to find her grandmother was sick and not moving. After talking to her blind grandfather, she decided to walk 5 miles alone in temperatures as low as -34°C (-29°F) over several hours to the next homestead in order to find help, which she successfullly did.

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XydX TIL that the majority of the United States still have data caps on their internet.
yREw TIL when composer Frédéric Chopin was on his death bed he asked that when he died his body be cut open and the heart removed to be buried in his homeland of Poland. Upon his death, his sister smuggled the heart out of France, delivering it to the Church of the Holy Cross in Warsaw.
pjaO TIL Bob Ross received hundreds of pieces of fan mail each week, and if someone who wrote to him often stopped writing, he would personally call them to see if they were ok.
ADDn4 TIL that in 2003, during a case involving stolen lunar samples,a federal court set the value of the moon rocks at $50,800 per gram based on how much it cost the U.S. government to retrieve the samples between 1969 and 1972.
PY0bn TIL that essential oils are not so named because they are necessary or indispensable. It is because they contain the essence or the smell of plants. They are smeely oils.