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TIL a woman in Mexico performed a successful Caesarean section on herself without any medical training.

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4XvoR TIL about Nüshu, a woman-only Chinese script. Woman used it to write letters, poetry, and even autobiographies. Due to men being unable to read it, woman who knew Nüshu arguably had far more intellectual freedom.
4X51o TIL of Charles Dickinson West who was hired by the Empire of Japan in 1882 to teach steam engine mechanics & mechanical engineering at Tokyo University. He assisted in the development of the Imperial Japanese Navy & was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun by Emperor Meiji in 1905.
oRwBo TIL in 2010, McAfee deployed a defective update to their corporate customers that took critical devices offline and required manual work to remediate. Founder and CEO of CrowdStrike, George Kurtz, was CTO of McAfee at the time.
l7WZK TIL that Romania has an actual tool called a "tesla"! In Romania, a tesla is a traditional woodworking tool similar to an adze, used for shaping wood. But more interestingly, there's a Romanian saying: "a-ți da cu tesla în coaie", which literally means "to hit yourself in the balls with a tesla."
xKw TIL there is a species of crabs that can grow larger than humans