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TIL what a LITHOPEDION is. It’s also called a “stone baby”— it happens when a baby dies during an ectopic pregnancy and instead of the body expelling it, the body calcifies it and it basically turns into stone- the baby can stay in the body for several DECADES and go unnoticed.

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a8e6J TIL the Studio Ghibli Museum in Japan houses several short films that are exclusive and only available to watch there
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