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TIL that Carrie Fisher was one of Hollywood’s premiere script doctors, and fixed some of the industry’s most well known films before release

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jNxRv TIL that in 2000, a pregnant woman in Mexico experienced delivery complications. Her solution was to drink three glasses of hard liquor and then give herself a Caesarean section with a kitchen knife. The mother and child both lived. She had no medical training.
R7DD8 TIL during the Apollo 11 lunar descent, Neil Armstrong, who was manually piloting the craft, heart rate was under 90bpm. After the Eagle touched down, it spiked to almost 160 bpm
JdBV TIL: Aerosmith once bailed out a large group of fans after a pot bust by the police.
16Kk8 TIL that the longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years. Charles Osborne, from the USA, hiccuped continuously from 1922 to 1990, totaling over 430 million hiccups.
6EOb7 TIL that nineteenth century New Orleans socialite Delphine LaLaurie was discovered to have been torturing several slaves in her home for months on end. In public life, she put on a facade of politeness toward black Americans and bragged about taking good care of her slaves.