› added 10 years ago

375

TIL That Havard has books that are bound in human skin.

Read more abc.net.au

via reddit.com

wopOW TIL In 1894, William Stewart Halsted, the first chief of surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, invented rubber gloves for his wife Caroline Hampton as he noticed her hands were affected by the daily surgeries she had performed and to prevent medical staff from developing dermatitis from surgical chemic
P10bG TIL about why so many Jeeps have rubber ducks on their dashboard
OojwX TIL: Tomato plants fertilized with human urine produce up to four times more fruit and had higher levels of beta-carotene & protein than traditional fertilizers.
69LnZ TIL that Welsh boxer Tommy Farr, challenged Joe Louis for the heavyweight championship and gave Louis such hell, that the American home crowd booed when Louis was given the win.
QNoD9 TIL that Fusako Sano is a Japanese woman who was kidnapped at age 9 and held captive for nine years and two months. Rescued at 19, she was frail and mentally affected by isolation, suffering from PTSD and physical weakness. In 2007, her father drowned in a pond while they were spending time together