› added 1 year ago

91

TIL that using cool running water immediately on a child's burn injury was shown to reduce the odds of needing a hospital visit by 36% and a skin operation by 43%. However, many well know, folkloric burn treatments don't work well.

Read more annemergmed.com

via reddit.com

rRZeW TIL Microsoft invested $150M in Apple during its decline in the late 90s, largely to combat anti-trust regulations. It saved Apple, and Microsoft sold off its shares when their deal was over, in 2003. Had they held on, the shares would be worth over $20B today
60rQ TIL Red color blind monkeys who underwent gene therapy by having their eyes injected with a red cone, had their color blindness cured, potentially opening a door for curing color blindness in humans.
R57N4 TIL that there were Italian POWs in Riverside, California in 1942
0BlM TIL that Anna Jarvis, founder of Mother’s Day holiday, later became unhappy with its commercialization and began organizing a petition to rescind Mother’s Day. She was placed in a sanitarium, and people connected with the floral and greeting card industries paid the bills to keep her there.
oRVPA TIL the oldest statute in the UK still in force was enacted in the year 1267 as part of the Statutes of Marlborough. The Law Commission is debating whether two of the four remaining statutes should be repealed.