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TIL about "Verbocaine": Talking to a patient throughout a non-anesthetized procedure and providing reassurance and feedback, which can mitigate pain response

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nWJKG TIL that 'double muscled' mice, having a deficiency of myostatin(a protein that inhibits muscle growth), are found to have excessive muscle growth but impaired force generation; i.e. they are more muscular, but not necessarily stronger
oBpbA TIL Stevie Ray Vaughan played the famous guitar solo on David Bowie's "Let's Dance"
ANWZ4 TIL of Picher, OK it was a lead mining town that became a superfund site.
JYmlv TIL Murray Rothbard believed that parental rights to children should be traded as consumer goods, suggesting the creation of a "flourishing free market in children".
QJVWX TIL of Medgar Evers, an American civil rights activist in Mississippi, the state's field secretary for the NAACP, and a World War II veteran who had served in the United States Army and was assassinated in 1963 by a member of the "White Citizens' Council"