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TIL that Czech doctors successfully delivered a baby girl 117 days after her mother had suffered a severe stroke and became brain dead. After delivery, they disconnected the mother’s life support.

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KYDGa TIL: That fungi have a range of vital roles from helping plants draw water + nutrients from soil to medicines that can lower blood cholesterol or enable organ transplants. But they have a darker side: devastating trees, crops, other plants across the world and wiping out animals such as amphibians.
W499 TIL Beethoven hated giving piano lessons unless they were for exceptionally talented students or attractive young women of whatever talent. He was also a notorious space cadet and never learned how to multiply or divide
dP0Q TIL that quicksand itself is actually harmless; it is less dense than people so sinking entirely into it is impossible. The danger comes from continuing to struggle, which can lead a person to be stuck, and fall victim to tides, weather, dehydration, or even hungry animals.
WVxN TIl- there was a 18 year old girl who, asked 911 if she could shoot an intruder, then shot him dead while on the phone.
P1kOe TIL the first Ciabatta bread was made in 1982