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TIL when Sassanid (Iranian) king Hormizd II died, his oldest son reigned for a few months, and was killed by the empire's nobles, who then blinded the second son, and imprisoned the third son. The crown was placed upon the pregnant queen's womb, crowning the unborn son, who later ruled for 70 years

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kJVv1 TIL of Dr. Quiñones-Hinojosa, who went from a 19 year old migrant farm worker to the head of neurosurgery at the Mayo Clinic.
baZZ TIL the costume worn by Star Trek’s Seven of Nine had to be modified after an error was made measuring the original. The bad fit cut off the blood supply from her carotid artery, causing her to pass out twice and require medical intervention. The costume was modified to stop it from happening again.
J4GV TIL as a nod to Spielberg - who placed a kid wearing Yoda costume in his movie E.T. - George Lucas made E.T.’s race a part of the Galactic Senate in Phantom Menace
M71MA TIL media reporting of suicides is carefully regulated as it can trigger more suicides. For example, in Taiwan, reports of charcoal-burning suicides were associated with a 16% increase in suicides by the same method the following day with no corresponding decrease in other methods of suicide.
w6V6 TIL that in 2012, IBM created a short film titled, “A Boy And His Atom,” using stop-motion of individual Carbon atoms magnified at over 100,000,000 times. Guinness World Records has verified it as “The World’s Smallest Stop-Motion Film.”