› added 5 years ago

429

TIL George Washington died from cynanche trachealis, aka the croup, mainly due to over zealous Doctors. Washington feeling very sick asked his overseer, Albin Rawlins, to bleed him. Doctors bled him four more times over the next eight hours, with a total blood loss of 40% along with other remedies.

Read more constitutioncenter.org

via reddit.com

Bond TIL: A 3GHz CPU takes roughly 0.33 nanoseconds to perform a simple equation. 0.33ns is to 1 second as 1 second is to 95 years.
VRkZ TIL In the past 6 months, Oklahoma has had 183 earthquakes above a 3.0 in magnitude. The previous 30 years combined they had 60 earthquakes.
9YKG TIL that the tobacco industry codenamed lung cancer “ZEPHYR” to avoid acknowledging it in internal memos.
R5wo1 TIL that during their time living underground, Cicadas bodies, and their burrows are coated in anal fluids
pYxnZ TIL Vicki Lawrence was actually in her 30s she played the role of Mama (Thelma Harper). The character Mama is in her late 70s during "Mama's Family". Vicki Lawrence did not turn 60 until 2009.