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TIL about Ines Ramirez Perez who performed an emergency C-section on herself. Both mother and child survived.

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7rOgM TIL that Moby Dick is based on a real-life male sperm whale named Mocha Dick. He reportedly destroyed more than 20 whaling ships and escaped another 80 in the early 19th century before being killed.
vPVGR TIL about Porphyrios, a giant whale who used to harass and destroy Byzantine ships near Constantinople during VI century. Active for more than 50 years, nobody managed to catch him, not even emperor Justinian I.
grrbW TIL that Rage Against The Machine bassist Tim Commerford is very secretive about his bass tone. He even goes so far as to put effects on his pedalboard that he doesn't use, make his own gear, and remove the labels off some of his effects.
gMYR7 TIL that the European colonial powers used indentured workers from India as cheap labor after the end of slavery
0wNvp TIL of Carl McCunn, a wildlife photographer who arranged to be flown out to remote Alaskan wilderness but forgot to schedule when he'd be picked up. He wrote of a plane spotting him stranded, in his excitement he accidentally gave the pilot an "All is well" signal, his diary was found with his body