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TIL: Sacha Baron Cohen offered to pay fines for six Czech tourists who were arrested in Kazakhstan for wearing nothing but 'Borat' inspired mankinis.

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AJrg TIL the longest surgery to date was a 96-hour marathon to remove a 300-lb ovarian cyst from a 600-lb woman. Simply hacking it out would have killed her, so the surgeon gradually drained fluid from the cyst over the course of 4 days, shrinking it to 100 lb. and allowing for a successful removal.
grLO7 TIL in Leave the World Behind (2023), a coordinated attack of 1) disabling communications and transportation, 2) synchronized chaos via disinformation, and 3) civil war and societal collapse was the most cost effective way of destabilizing a dysfunctional society.
x6v1b TIL you shouldn’t rinse your mouth after brushing your teeth. This washes away all the fluoride, instead, just spit out the toothpaste then go about your day
0wJYL TIL of Ingeborg Rapoport. In 2015, 74 years after being denied her Ph.D by the Nazis for being Jewish, she successfully defended her dissertation and received her doctorate from the University of Hamburg at the age of 102, making her the oldest person ever to receive one.
yRpM TIL engineers building a bridge between Germany and Switzerland found that when the two halves met their elevations differed by 54 cm. Germany bases sea level on the North Sea, and Switzerland by the Mediterranean; someone messed up the correction, doubling it instead of cancelling it out.