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TIL that as late as 1987, doctors were routinely performing surgery on babies without anaesthesia.

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a8JnJ TIL Actor Christopher Guest is member of the British House of Lords.
Y7XRZ TIL of Hannah Beswick; who was so afraid of being buried alive that she paid her physician to be kept above ground and be provisionally checked for signs of life after she died. She was finally buried 110 years after her death, being declared "irrevocably and unmistakably dead"
JNgl TIL That in 2006 scientists accidentally killed the world’s oldest living animal while trying to figure out its age
nJ1b TIL that The Great Lakes are 21% of the worlds fresh water supply and that Ontario Power Generation is planning to bury radioactive nuclear waste one mile away.
9Y6L7 TIL there is a guinness world record for "greatest robbery of a goverement" ,currently held by the dictator of the Philippines F.Marcos and his wife Imelda. It is estimated that they have embezelled up to 10 billion USD of which only 860 million have been recovered