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Dec 16, 2019

TIL that about 25% of people who commit suicide are legally drunk before death

alcoholic beverages depression (mental) medicine and health suicides and suicide attempts

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Dec 04, 2019

TIL people with Seasonal Affective Disorder experience more prolonged secretion of night time melatonin in the winter than those without, mimicking the urge to sleep more shown in hibernating animals.

depression (mental) medicine and health mental health and disorders seasonal affective disorder (sad) seasons and months

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Oct 18, 2019

TIL Diarrhea kills more children than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined; the depletion of bodily fluids from Diarrhea can cause "profound" dehydration, killing thousands of kids everyday.

acquired immune deficiency syndrome babies children and youth diarrhea foreign aid medicine and health pneumonia third world and developing countries

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Sep 07, 2019

TIL Willem Kolff created the first dialysis machine in the Netherlands during WWII. Lacking materials, he used sausage casings, tin cans, a washing machine, and salt water. He also saved more than 800 people from the Nazis by hiding them in his hospital. And he later invented the artificial heart.

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Jul 30, 2019

TIL that after hurricane Katrina, 45 patients died at Memorial Hospital, several of them of suspected euthanasia

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Apr 22, 2019

TIL that Jimmy Carter's siblings and father all died of Pancreatic Cancer, with all of his siblings dying within 7 years of one another.

cancer carter jimmy medicine and health pancreas

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