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TIL that bacteria have sexual intercourse

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0wWDM TIL Inés Ramírez Pérez, a woman from Mexico. A mother of eight kids who had no medical training, performed a successful Caesarean section on herself. With 12 hours of continual pain she used a kitchen knife and three glasses of hard liqour whilst her husband was drinking at a bar.
p8lPG TIL about Brooke Greenberg, a girl who never aged. She died at the age of 20 still looking like a toddler.
kJOBB TIL Hitler insisted on large, permanent sites for V-2 rocket launches. The largest of these sites was destroyed by RAF tallboy bombs before it was completed.
p8RJG TIL that Four out of five members of Congress continued to drink alcohol during Prohibition
Xka8 TIL that when he was thirty years old, Mark Twain wrote an illustrated children’s book called “Advice to Little Girls”. Lost and unknown for generations, it has been rediscovered. It is a charming and irreverent little book.