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OG0D4 Today I learned that a man made hole is deeper than the mariana trench.
4VO6 TIL René Laennec invented the stethoscope because he was unable to hear a patient’s heart due to their “great degree of fatness”.
wo6mW 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.
E1j87 TIL the original Mortal Kombat soundtrack was created by Lords of Acid, only under a different band name.
jNOxN 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.