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TIL doctors carried out an emergency C-Section on a dying car crash victim only to discover she was not pregnant. Her "protruding stomach" was due to previous surgery to treat spinal bifida

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grPD8 TIL that, during the Persian Gulf War, Topps made a trading card set depicting people and equipment on both sides of the conflict
6EAB8 TIL that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas spoke a creole language associated with the descendants of slaves called Gullah as his first-language and that his relative silence on the Court is due in part to self-consciousness from being teased about the way he spoke as a child in rural Georgia.
jNjgp TIL A Japanese company has awarded its non-smoking employees 6 extra vacation days to compensate for the smoker’s smoke breaks.
4prX TIL “Every Breath You Take” by The Police was not a love song. It was a song about “Big Brother, surveillance, and control”
KYZ0Q TIL, unlike most birds, kiwis have horrible eyesight and are frequently prone to ophthalmological issues. As a result, they naturally rely so heavily on other senses that some have been found to have survived perfectly well albeit completely blind in the wild for years.