Another story involved Daniel Boone, his sons and a few other companions sleeping outside on the ground during a snow storm. In the middle of the night, the Boone boys were awakened when Dad kicked out the snow ball “pillows” they had rolled. Daniel muttered something like “my boys won’t be sissies!” before everyone returned to sleep.

Those people were tough.
And human bodies CAN take more than we typically expect nowadays.

There are advantages to the cold. It builds character in the people who live here. And we don’t have much of a homeless problem.

And it snows. One of my dreams is to hire a small airplane to take me up some completely cloudless night, not very high, when there’s a full moon, on a day when it snowed a couple inches, enough to blanket the landscape. *Sigh*

Also: I’ve been in houses with heated floors and only wish we could retrofit ours.
Best done in new construction.
Second favorite: our son’s boiler pipe system. Zoned heat, won’t burn the kids (or melt the Legos under the radiator), doesn’t dry out the air. Does need electric power, but they also have a fire-place (which we need to test-drive sometime).

Of course this American lived for 27-years without any heat at all in Maine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Thomas_Knight

Some kinds of heating systems would work that way; you’d get an overshoot problem maybe once you hit your temperature. Generally thermostats are programmed to cut back when the sensed temperature is near the set temperature (the “P” in PID controller).

But what my dear wife doesn’t seem to get is that the car is cold because the engine is cold, and turning the heat to max will do literally nothing until the car warms up.