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TIL one woman has successfully performed a caesarean section on herself with only a few shots of liquor as anesthesia

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J1rkl TIL a student wore the same pair of jeans 330 times over 15 months without washing them, then after washing them, wore them another 13 days. A textile scientist had tested the jeans for bacteria both after the 15 months (pre-wash) & after the 13 days. Little difference in bacterial count was found.
l7ZKN TIL that George Lucas asked both David Lynch and then David Cronenberg to direct "Return of the Jedi", but both declined.
LQeZr TIL the fate of SPY, the world’s largest exchange-traded fund (ETF), depends on the lives of 11 random millennials (born between 1990 and 1993). SPY will cease to exist on Jan. 22, 2118, or 20 years "after the death of the last survivor of the eleven persons", whichever occurs first.
4XYka TIL that whilst he ultimately lost the 1896 Presidential Election, 36 year old William Jennings Bryan became the youngest person in American History to win an electoral vote, winning 176 of the 447 Electoral Votes at the time.
aWWA TIL that many old churches look as if they have sunk into the ground, when in fact the ground has risen up to 3 feet by centuries’ worth of decomposing bodies in the graveyards.