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TIL about the “Bogota Bag”, a known medical procedure where a plastic bag, typically an IV bag, is cut open and placed over the stomach to provide a hermetic seal over exposed organs that are so swollen the stomach must be cut open and exposed to relieve fatal pressure.

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pY1m4 TIL In All Dogs Go To Heaven (1989) Burt Reynolds struggled over 60 takes to record Charlie saying Goodbye to Anne-Marie. Voiced by 10yo Judith Barsi, she was murdered after recording. In the final take, holding a photo of her, Burt can audibly be heard breaking down, Saying goodbye one last time.
epyxL TIL Great Britain accidentally adopted a de facto gold standard in 1717 when Sir Isaac Newton, then-master of the Royal Mint, set the exchange rate of silver to gold too low, thus causing silver coins to go out of circulation.
DQ1Ee TIL that in 1965, the painter Roman Opałka had the idea of representing the passing of time by painting numbers: he painted a 1, then a 2, then a 3, etc, and continued for the rest of his life. The last number he painted before he died in 2011 was 5607249.
xVEww TIL that 18 century mathematician Carl Gauss knew he was ahead of his time, and would purposefully withhold huge mathematical discoveries so he didn’t have to waste his time arguing with everyone who wasn’t smart enough to understand it.
m1nEO TIL that Larry Holmes was one victory away from matching Rocky Marciano’s unsurpassed heavyweight record of 49-0, when he was defeated by Michael Spinks.