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TIL - In March of 2000, Inés Ramírez Pérez performed a Caesarean section on herself and survived, as did her baby. She is believed to be the only known case of a successful self-inflicted Caesarean section

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5Vd4B TIL that the animated DC movie Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker was edited for being seen as too violent for kids, in light of the Columbine High School massacre that happened the year before its release
4EXb TIL that If you hear the GameCube menu background music sped up to 16x you will hear the same tune of the Famicom’s Disk System startup.
KYl6R TIL conspiracy is against the law and just one move to enact the plan is enough to get you convicted.
PPAE TIL The actor for Darth Vader (David Prowse) learnt all of Vader’s lines and acted as Vader in the films only for all his lines to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones because Prowse sounded like “some Scottish guy”.
mv6o TIL In Yao Ming’s first game in Miami, the Heat passed out 8,000 fortune cookies. Yao was not angry with the promotion because he was not familiar with American stereotypes of Chinese. Yao said he had never seen a fortune cookie in China and guessed it must have been an American invention.