› added 13 years ago

135

TIL the phrase ‘Gotta catch 'em all!’ was retired in 2003

Read more bulbapedia.bulbagardnet

via reddit.com

e49k TIL when Einstein died in 1955, the physician who conducted his autopsy at Princeton stole his brain and took it home to perform “research”, for which he was ultimately fired after refusing to return the brain. Decades later, he drove to California to return the brain to Einstein’s granddaughter.
QJ616 TIL medical students frequently report having ‘medical student disease’, perceiving themselves to have the symptoms of the disease they are currently studying.
bdDE TIL that up until the 1960′s, the only reliable pregnancy test was to inject a woman’s urine into a female African clawed frog. If the woman was pregnant, the frog would ovulate within 12 hours.
EER7 TIL that One in Four Patients with Newly-Diagnosed Erectile Dysfunction is a Young Man
QN946 TIL that during the Middle Ages, animals were judged as if they were humans. It was even possible to sue any kind of animal, and authorities would catch and bring them to trial. They would then receive a sentence based on the alleged crime committed.