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TIL purple butterfly stickers on incubators are for infants with a twin whom passed away

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4yXw TIL in some asian countries, women get 2 days of “menstruation leave” per month.
X06a8 TIL Mel Brooks was the executive producer of David Lynch's The Elephant Man, and gave him final cut, which technically he did not have.
nWrp9 TIL that in the original Star Wars trilogy - Episode V - Palpatine was portrayed by Marjorie Eaton in heavy makeup as stand-in, chimpanzee eyes were superimposed into her darkened eye sockets during post-production and was voiced by musical stage actor Clive Revill.
79wr TIL that in 2011, Portland Oregon discarded 7.8 MILLION GALLONS of drinking water because a man urinated into the reservoir.
neBYb TIL there is a group of single-celled organisms called Asgard archaea, Lokiarchaeum, named after the Arctic Ocean geothermal vent, Loki's Castle, where they were discovered. They are considered to be the missing link in the evolution of the cell, which separates eukaryotes like humans from bacteria.