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TIL chainsaws were once used to assist in childbirth.

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neRQr TIL that when Berlins infamous Spandau Prisons last inmate, Nazi Rudolf Hess, died, the entire site was demolished, ground into powder and dumped in the sea to stop it becoming a Nazi shrine. A supermarket for British Troops was put in it's place, who nicknamed it 'Hessco's' (after Tesco's)
X0JN8 TIL; 1 out of every 50 people in the US has an unruptured brain aneurysm.
OGg74 TIL that the 1994 slow speed police chase of OJ Simpson in a white Ford Bronco was the 6th most watched television broadcast in US history at the time, and since then only Super Bowls have had more viewers.
BrePy TIL to solve this box labelling problem. There are 3 boxes labelled as Bananas, Strawberries and Mixed. All of the labels are labelled incorrectly. You can reach only into one box and you can take one fruit from it. Then you have to fix the labels correctly.
yeRv TIL that in Vietnam, it is possible to order a cobra blood wine from restaurant menus - the waiter will take a live cobra, kill it on the spot, drain the blood into a shot glass of rice wine, and top it off with the cobra’s still beating heart for you to gulp down.