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TIL about breech birth where the baby come out feet first instead of head first like it's supposed to. Around 3%-5% women experience breech birth.

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J1XX1 TIL humans were thought to be the only host species susceptible to leprosy until cases were identified in nine-banded armadillos and now Eurasian red squirrels in the UK have been added as a reservoir. 200,000 new human cases of leprosy a year are still recorded but the exact mechanism is unknown.
9kB6 TIL that if you fail your driver’s license practical test three times in Switzerland, you have to visit a Psychologist to explain why you failed it.
45dN TIL Gordon Ramsay was doused in gasoline and held at gunpoint by gang members while attempting to film a documentary about the illegal shark fin industry. He managed to escape by diving into his car with his film crew and driving off.
OG5bY TIL the ancient Greek astronomer Aristarchus of Samos realized the Solar System was heliocentric 2000 years before Copernicus, but was mostly ignored.
9wPXM TIL of J.W.H.T. Douglas, an English cricket player from the early 1900s, who drowned when the ship he was sailing on crashed into another. The captains of the ships were brothers, and were attempting to wish each other a Merry Christmas in passing when one rammed the other in heavy fog.