r/WeirdThingsToLearn

Two Litres of the Reason His Legs Stopped Working

A newborn reported as one of the largest babies ever delivered vaginally without a C-section, weighing around 17.47 pounds and measuring over 22 inches long. The mother had gestational diabetes, which is a common cause of unusually large birth weights

A real medical case of a large blood clot coughed up by a patient that had formed inside the airways and hardened into the exact branching shape of the bronchial tree it had been sitting in, a rare event doctors call a bronchial cast

Fetus Removed From Brain of 1-Year-Old Girl with Motor Delay

Rodríguez Martínez, the mother who hunted down all 10 cartel members who took the life of her daughter before they caught her too

In February 2009, a 200-lb pet chimpanzee named Travis attacked Charla Nash in Stamford, Connecticut, tearing off her hands, nose, lips and eyelids before police shot the animal dead. She later received a full face transplant in one of the most extreme documented captive-animal maulings.

‎Wildlife officials had to ban feeding an eagle at a dock after realizing he was hoarding fish to feed a beluga whale instead of himself

A giant golden-crowned flying fox photographed hanging from a rooftop in the Philippines, a real bat species and one of the largest in the world with a wingspan that can stretch past five feet despite the animal being a fruit-eating bat rather than anything predatory.

Identical twins Kayla and Kellie Bingham were expelled for cheating after answering nearly all of a med school exam identically, then won a $1.5 million defamation lawsuit.

A Medical Case of Palate Damage From Long-Term Cocaine Use ‎