› added 4 years ago

157

TIL A 2013 study published in the Journal of Addiction Medicine revealed that 69% of doctors reported that they abused prescription medicine “to relieve stress & physical or emotional pain." Rates of addiction are highest within the specialties of anesthesiology, emergency medicine, and psychiatry.

Read more americanaddictioncenters.org

via reddit.com

D1V4v TIL of the Isdal Woman, who was found dead in Isdalen, Norway 1970. An autopsy revealed she had been poisoned with phenobarbital and carbon monoxide. Her death remains a mystery
Zad4 TIL the phrase “balls out” has nothing to do with testicles, but rather with early steam engine components.
4XlyJ TIL that black essayist James Baldwin had an 1,884-page FBI file, one of the longest in Bureau history. Truman Capote, one of the most-suspected writers of the era, only had a 110-page file
69BgX TIL that boxer Rocky Marciano, is the only world heavyweight champion to retire undefeated.
Oabe TIL that Lake Chargoggagoggmanchoggagogg name means “you fish on your side, I fish on mine, nobody fishes in the middle”