Post * VV4m — Curious Curator

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TIL a baby that was pronounced dead at birth after not breathing for 20 minutes due to a premature birth was brought back to life after laying on his Mother’s chest for 2 hours, and is currently a healthy 4 year old.

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8Wja TIL: Einstein explained Relativity as “When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute—and it’s longer than any hour. That’s relativity.”

wLy56 TIL about Marion Stokes, a Philadelphia woman who began taping whatever was on television in 1979 and didn't stop until her death in 2012.. The 71,000 VHS and Betamax tapes she made are the most complete collection preserving this era of TV. They are being digitized by the Internet Archive.

DMEv TIL that in the late 1800’s, Doctors would infect sick patients with a secondary disease, in order to cure them of the primary one eg. a patient with syphilis would be injected with malaria, to give them a fever and thus, cure them (Most prominently by Dr. Julius Wagner-Jauregg)

BrBEW TIL bills of $1k, $5k, $10k, and up to $100k used to be in circulation, a few of which were curtailed by Nixon in '69 to prevent them from being used in money-laundering

LRyd TIL Drug companies that manufacture opioids like OxiContin, manufacture the pills with an opioid negating core. When the pill is crushed, it prevents the rapid release of the drug by inactivating most of it.