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TIL Standard Barbells don't even adhere to a standard

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E1GG7 TIL that a potential complication during vaginal delivery is a "Uterine Inversion". In order to treat said inversion, the attending Doctor quite literally fists the female; he/she grabs the uterus through the vagina, and manually pushes it back into place. The alternative is massive hemorrhage.
6mv8 TIL New Zealand will deny people residency visas if they have too high of a BMI and there has been cases of people rejected because of their weight.
ovvo TIL that there is an organism that exists as a single celled organism when times are good, but under stress gathers together to form a slug, which climbs to a favorable spot and becomes a plant which launches spores which become single cells again.
MexKm TIL that Peter Jackson made Elijah Wood perform the final shoot for Frodo in Return Of The King many more times than actually necessary because he couldn't bear to say goodbye
oROmr TIL that Marc Summers, host of Nickelodeon’ Double Dare, suffered with OCD (and has had a generally wild life)