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TIL Monoco’s orchestra is bigger than their army

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yVBve TIL that Leonid Rogozov was not squeamish - an only doctor among 13 (talk about unlucky!) researchers at an Antarctic station, he performed a successful appendectomy on HIMSELF, helped by two assistants whose roles were to: a) pass him instruments; b) hold a mirror so that he could see better
OoQGg Til while Simon Pegg was in rehab for alcoholism, the tabloids would ring up pretending to be his mother, to get a story off the clinic.
9rRX TIL The first software patch was an actual patch, on a paper tape.
LQvQP TIL predation by wasps can cause the eggs of red-eyed tree frogs attached to the leaves of trees to hatch immediately, allowing the tadpole to escape by falling into the water below
M7DJb TIL diesel was named after the inventor of the same name, Rudolf Diesel