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TIL the first successful C-section (where both the baby and mother survived) was performed in 1500 in Switzerland by a sow gelder named Jakob Nufer on his wife, who went on to have five more children after.

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e9aL TIL some architects refuse to design spaces deemed inhumane by their nature, including solitary confinement cells and execution chambers. The counterargument: if architects don’t do it, such spaces will still be built, just by non-professionals who may make them even worse.
woNj8 TIL that Austrian mathematician Kurt Gödel, famous for the incompleteness theorem, became so paranoid of being poisoned that he only ate food prepared by his wife. When she was hospitalised for a few months after a stroke, he stubbornly refused to eat and died of starvation.
9ZO6 TIL that in medical dramas, about 66% of patients who are administered CPR survive long enough to be discharged from the hospital. In reality, depending on the circumstances CPR has a success rate between 2% and 18%.
vPL88 TIL that in 2007 the NCTA launched a campaign to teach families about online safety. Here’s a rare PSA that gets its point across in a cute, innocent way rather than being scary.
Lk4wp TIL that Mike Judge moved to Texas and a storm blew off a part of his fence. After his new neighbors fixed it for him, no questions asked, it became the basis for King Of The Hill - "about neighbors who... ultimately, do the right thing and do right by people and are basically good people."