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OGAe1 TIL that Bill Murray did not sign a contract while agreeing to play the lead in Lost In Translation. Director Sofia Coppola then proceeded to spend a quarter of the film's budget without knowing if Murray would follow through and expressed relief when he finally showed up.
OWMg TIL there are at least 5 confirmed cases of women successfully giving themselves C-sections. One involved a Mexican village woman with no medical training, who after 12 hrs of labor pains, took 3 shots of liquor, cut into her uterus with a kitchen knife, & retrieved her baby alive after an hour.
VB1N8 TIL human birth rates exhibit significant seasonality, with a large peak in spring and a similarly-sized trough in autumn/winter.
jVWa TIL the word ‘moose’ is borrowed from Algonquin Indians and may be the oldest unchanged pronunciation in the English language.
R7V1Q TIL: In the opening credits of Gilligan’s Island, as the SS Minnow sails out of the harbor, flags can be seen in the background flying at half-staff given that the filming of the show’s pilot took place the week of the JFK assassination.