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Today I learned that a man made hole is deeper than the mariana trench.
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TIL René Laennec invented the stethoscope because he was unable to hear a patient’s heart due to their “great degree of fatness”.
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TIL in 1854, Dr. Jules Baillarger depicted a mental illness expressed by switches between mania and depression. He named it dual-form insanity. Dr. Jean Falret described the same illness but named it circular insanity. They spent their lives disputing who first conceptualized it.
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TIL the original Mortal Kombat soundtrack was created by Lords of Acid, only under a different band name.
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TIL A stroke used to be called apoplexy which is Greek "struck down by violence." Hippocrates, the father of medicine, first recognized stroke over 2,400 years ago.