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TIL there are more CEOs named "David" than all female CEOs combined in the US

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69yNW TIL in 2000 a Mexican woman performed an hour-long C-section on herself with a kitchen knife after 12 hours of constant pain. After 3 attempts to cut open her abdomen, she made a 17cm vertical incision (a typical one is 10cm & horizontal). But despite no medical training, both mom & child survived.
D10bJ TIL in 2001, a baby bear, lion, and tiger were rescued from a drug dealers house in Atlanta. They had bonded as a trio and remained friends for over 15 years. Usually as animals grow older, they grow apart from other species, but these three remained close and even lived in the same habitat.
y6EJ TIL that Thomas Jefferson believed Lewis and Clark would encounter Woolly Mammoths, mountains of salt, and a race of Welsh-speaking Indians along their journey west.
RZy4 TIL A single misplaced comma created a giant legal loophole in the 1972 U.S Tariff Act, costing the government $1,000,000.
WkkmY Maybe, but no one has ever proved it.