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TIL a surgeon diagnosed himself with acute appendicitis while part of a Russian expedition to Antarctica in 1961. With no other options, he performed the surgery on himself over 2 hours.

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RZdl TIL the satire show Have I Got News For You once published about a British politician: “Given Mr Allason’s fondness for pursuing libel actions, there are also excellent legal reasons for not referring to him as a conniving little shit.” He promptly sued and lost.
YpelP TIL that David Bowie was injured in his eye and developed a condition called anisocoria, where one pupil is a different size than the other. He was injured in a fight over a girl.
nVG9 TIL the phrase “I’ve fallen, and I can’t get up” is a registered trademark of Life Alert.
64vZ TIL Theodore Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, was among twenty-two Harvard students subjected to “horrific experiments” conducted as part of the secret CIA project MKUltra, the same project that produced LSD and whose goal was mind control.
1O9r TIL Cleopatra was 18 when she married her 10 year old brother to become co-ruler of Egypt.