› added 2 years ago

69

TIL that Ketogenic diets are a viable treatment option for epilepsy that has not responded to multiple antiepileptic drugs (refractory seizures). It is also under investigation for utility in Alzheimer's.

Read more beatlyzer.com

via beatlyzer.com

eQwb TIL Ichiro Suzuki, baseball’s all-time hits leader, learned Spanish just for the purpose of trash talking opponents.
GxBj TIL that 63% of registered American voters believe in at least one political conspiracy theory
woXd7 TIL that Joseph Smith, the founder of the LDS Church, aka Mormon Church, was assassinated in 1844 in Illinois by a mob. He was running for president at the time and is the first presidential candidate in US History to be assassinated
606W TIL that in the 1960s Chrysler developed a car powered by a gas turbine engine. It could rev to 44,500 rpm, sounded like a vacuum cleaner and could run on diesel, petrol, kerosine, jet fuel and as the President of Mexico proved, tequila.
EP90 TIL that a calculator and a radio can be taped together to make a metal detector that really works!