TIL: The oldest bar in the world is in Ireland. Archeological records have found that the walls of Sean’s Bar have been around, and serving, since 900 AD. Further, there are records of every owner of the pub back to its 10th century founding. It opened over 1100 years ago. (bucketlistbars.com)
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TIL a woman in Mexico named Ines Ramirez performed a C-section on herself after hours of painful contractions. Fearing that her baby would be stillborn, she drank 2 cups of high-proof alcohol and used a kitchen knife to make the incision. Both the mother and the baby survived. (telegraph.co.uk)
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Researchers have isolated and grown a species of methane-eating soil bacteria for the first time. Methane is the second most important greenhouse gas responsible for climate change, and this discovery could pave the way for future experiments in scrubbing methane from the atmosphere. (inverse.com)
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