Show 1: World Art Museum & Marketplace

todayilearned

medicine

Browse Categories

todayilearned

Jul 19, 2020

TIL Ancient Sumerian doctors had advanced surgical practices that involved washing their hands and the wounds with antiseptic mixes of honey, alcohol, and myrrh.

gula medicine mesopotamia mesopotamian religion

todayilearned

Jul 08, 2020

TIL: Researchers at Yale University School of Medicine devised a system roughly analogous to a dialysis machine, called BrainEx, that restores circulation and oxygen flow to a dead brain. Using BrainEx, they restored restored cellular function in 32 pig brains that had been dead for over four hours.

angeli gabriel body brain brainex death dna ethics medicine pigs science and technology

todayilearned

Jun 06, 2020

TIL that during WWII JFK was stranded in the solomon islands, and ended up carving a message into a coconut, that a native delivered to the nearest US base and saved his life

american history history of science japan john f. kennedy medicine pacific ocean world war ii

todayilearned

May 18, 2020

TIL grad students in the Netherlands have created lab-grown venom glands from 9 species of snake embryos: 1mm long white blobs that produced venom in a petri dish. It paves the way for creating antivenom without milking adult snakes for venom and without injecting into a horse to produce antibodies.

animals cool finds health innovations inventions medicine new research reptiles snakes weird animals

todayilearned

May 06, 2020

TIL that the ‘Father of American Gynecology’, and former President of the American Medical Association James Marion Sims conducted experiments on enslaved women without anesthesia to hone his surgical techniques.

medicine monuments stories

todayilearned

Mar 17, 2020

TIL Elizabeth Taylor‘s voluminous eyelashes were caused by a rare genetic mutation which was responsible for her having 2 rows of eyelashes.

double eyelashes elizabethh taylor foxc2 genetics medicine violet eyes

todayilearned

Mar 12, 2020

TIL our skin is covered in invisible stripes. First observed by Alfred Blaschko in the early 1900s, they appeared not to follow any known body system. Visible only under UV light, these stripes now known to be cellular relics of fetal development from singular-cell beings to fully formed humans.

medicine

todayilearned

Feb 19, 2020

TIL Having two small children means on average someone is sick in a household 29 weeks out of the year, meaning the household has a sickness more often than it is healthy.

gizmodo health medicine science virus

todayilearned

Jan 05, 2020

TIL Many cities enacted anti-spitting laws, that are still technically enforceable today, to combat tuberculosis in the 1800-1900’s which was killing more people than any other disease at the time.

disease health medicine museums news

todayilearned

Dec 05, 2019

TIL that during WWI, there was limited supplies of cotton, so doctors used sphagnum moss for bandages. It can hold 22x its own weight in liquid and is a natural antiseptic.

botany climate change ecology health medicine plants scientific innovation world war i world war i technology

todayilearned

Nov 07, 2019

TIL that Lewis and Clark's campsite 'travelers rest' was located by detecting mercury left behind in their stool samples. To combat constepation they consumed pills which contained the metal, mercury doesnt biodegrade so it's still detectable in multiple site locations across America.

history medicine

todayilearned

Oct 15, 2019

TIL about Martin Couney who ran a sideshow on Coney Island full of incubators to save premie babies. He is credited with saving over 6000 babies in the decades he ran the exhibit.

atlantic city babies books childbirth coney island living medicine

todayilearned

Sep 29, 2019

TIL that people can die from simply giving up on life. Senior research John Leach said “give-up-itis” can kill in just three weeks without help.

death health and fitness living medicine mental health psychology

todayilearned

Sep 19, 2019

TIL ‘Old-Person Smell’ was confirmed by scientists as real, along with distinct young- and middle-aged-person smells.

aging body odor medicine old-people smell old-person smell smell

todayilearned

Aug 04, 2019

TIL about Dr Barry Marshall who was convinced that H.pylori bacteria causes stomach ulcers, but no one believed him. Since it was illegal to test his theory on humans, he drank the bacteria himself, developed ulcers within days, treated them with antibiotics and went to win a Nobel prize.

bacteria crime culture documentary drugs entertainment film journalism lgbtq medicine motherboard mysteries news nobel prize podcasts politics sex tech travel tv ulcers video

todayilearned

Jul 26, 2019

TIL Scurvy used to be the scourge of the navy, killing sailors on long voyages. Now it's a blight to evolutionary biologists. They just don't know why it exists in humans. It's only in the primates - gorillas, chimps, humans, and a few monkeys - that the body stops producing this necessary vitamin.

biology evolution hydrogen peroxide io9 medicine natural selection science scurvy vitamin c

todayilearned

Jun 15, 2019

TIL that the success rate for CPR is nowhere near as high as it is portrayed on TV. In some cities it can be as low as 5%.

biology humanbody image medical-myths medicine organ story

todayilearned

Jun 11, 2019

TIL that having clear urine is actually bad for you (you've drunk too much water) while having slightly tinted yellow urine is the ideal color.

beets bladder cancer bright yellow urine clear urine dark urine dehydration medicine pee peeing research urinary tract infection urine urine color urine smells uti yellow urine you asked

todayilearned

Jun 05, 2019

TIL water is not actually flavorless but more close to sour in the taste pallet

disease drugs health news medical daily medical news medical science medicaldaily.com medicine treatment

todayilearned

May 28, 2019

TIL that in 10th Century China, people snorted up dried smallpox scabs so they would become immune to the disease.

disease drugs health news medical daily medical news medical science medicaldaily.com medicine treatment

Next Page

Show the world who you are

We give you the most custom-tailored news feed on the web!
Get only the stories, pictures, gifs, & videos you care about.
At Show 1, you're in control! No spying, no tracking, no algorithmic manipulation, no BS!

Blue people