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TIL there are at least 5 confirmed cases of women successfully giving themselves C-sections. One involved a Mexican village woman with no medical training, who after 12 hrs of labor pains, took 3 shots of liquor, cut into her uterus with a kitchen knife, & retrieved her baby alive after an hour.

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BgQPL TIL that the East Los Angeles Interchange, located in Boyle Heights, California, is the busiest freeway interchange in the world. Handling over 550,000 cars a day.
l7RbA TIL Victor Vescovo is the first person to complete the "Explorers' Extreme Trifecta" of land, sea & air by: summiting Mount Everest (the highest point on Earth), diving to the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench (the deepest point on Earth), & entering space (crossing the 100-km-high Kármán Line).
Me0X0 TIL that the parents of Cliff Burton, Metallica bassist killed in a bus crash in 1986 at the age of 24, have been quietly donating his royalties to the music program of his former high school ever since.
8aX0X TIL that former Liberian President, Charles D. B. King, earned himself a spot in the Guinness Book of Records for the most fraudulent election reported in history, having won the 1927 election with 243,000 votes in a country with 15,000 registered voters.
m1pry TIL of Gitarama Prison in Rwanda. Originally built for 400 inmates, it has housed up to 7000. Because of the massive overcrowding, prisoners are forced to stand for hours barefoot. It's also been reported that the inmates kill each other and eat the dead.