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R7pda TIL A new, low-cost wound dressing leverages energy generated from a patient's own body motions to apply gentle electrical pulses at the site of an injury. In rodent tests, the dressings reduced healing times to a mere three days compared to nearly two weeks for the normal healing process.
woERP TIL since 2000, the Clay Mathematics Institute is offering a prize of 1 million dollars to the person that can prove the Riemann Hypothesis. No one has been able to prove it since it was formulated by Bernhard Riemann in 1860.
1OoO TIL Mohammed Hemly, an Egyptian doctor who lived in Nazi Berlin, saved the lives of a Jewish friend and her family by sheltering them in his cabin for 3 years. Years later the Isreali Government gave him an honorific title, but his next of kin rejected the honor, citing Egypt-Israel relations.
x6Kxk TIL 59% of 18-25 year olds in the United States are overweight or obese
KO6JB TIL People leave pennies on John Wilkes Booth’s grave to give Lincoln the last word