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TIL France is the second largest hip hop market in the world

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D10PJ TIL that Robert Liston amputated a patient's leg so fast that he cut off his assistant's fingers and slashed through a spectator's coat. His patient and assistant died due to infection, and the spectator died due to shock, making this medical operation the only known one with a 300% mortality rate.
VMjA8 TIL, In Jan 2015 Masha a tabby cat from Obninsk, Kaluba Russia, rescued an abandoned baby from freezing to death by staying beside & give him warmth while continue meowing to alert human in the vicinity. It didn't took long someone hear & noticed and baby boy was saved & brought to a hospital.
OobX1 TIL that the technical term for 'butt crack' is the 'intergluteal cleft'.
QJ8mp TIL Water is deadly for babies under 6 months. A few ounces can kill them. Water intoxication in babies also occurs when baby formula is diluted with too much water, and when babies are dunked up and down in swimming pools.
JYnDj TIL that in 1955 a lightning bolt struck a land mine from WW1 in Belgium killing a cow, making that cow a casualty of war.