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TIL Doctor Amanda Hess who was in the hospital preparing to give birth put her own delivery on hold to deliver another woman’s baby after hearing that the child was in distress and her doctor had left the hospital for a break. After the on-call doctor came back doctor Hess went and had her own baby.

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6ELrX TIL The cashew "apple" is a light reddish to yellow fruit, whose pulp can be processed into a sweet, astringent fruit drink or distilled into liquor. The cashew “nut” is the seed of the fruit. The shell of the cashew seed is used for lubricants, waterproofing, paints and arms production.
b7V0 TIL Neil Young once wired up his house to be the left speaker and the barn as his right speaker so that he could listen to music from a boat in the middle of his lake.
0d69M TIL Starbucks is named after the first mate of the Pequod in Herman Melville’s classic novel Moby-Dick
8bka TIL that during 9/11, the Russian government canceled military exercises in the North Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic Oceans, in order to avoid provoking the US, which had raised it’s military alert readiness to DEFCON 3
RoK9 TIL I learned there was a conspiracy theory that alleged the CIA had a woman give false testimony to the House of Representatives against the Iraqis in 1990 so the U.S. would back Kuwait. In 1992, it was proven true.