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TIL that scientists speculate Caesarian Sections are changing human evolution. A new study suggests that an increasingly common reason women undergo C-sections is because their pelvis is too narrow, this number is up 10-20% from the 1960s.

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4XwMb TIL the largest lawsuit ever filed was for $2 Undecillion. That's a 2 followed by 36 zeros.
M7AY7 TIL John Candy, Harold Ramis and Eugene Levy had voice acting roles in Heavy Metal, the 1981 adult animated film. Candy played multiple roles; Ramis' character yells "nose dive!" and snorts "Plutonian Nyborg" while co-piloting a spaceship; and Levy played crooked space captain Lincoln F. Sternn
XvVX TIL in Argentina, the seventh son of a couple automatically receives the godfathership of the President to prevent him from turning in to a werewolf.
9p TIL that in 2005, the cardboard box was inducted into the Toy Hall of Fame.
GkxQ TIL when asked if there was validity in the media’s criticism of violence in his movies, Quentin Tarantino said, “Sure, Kill Bill’s a violent movie. But it’s a Tarantino movie. You don’t go to see Metallica and ask the fuckers to turn the music down.”