› added 1 year ago

39

TIL that a component of the immune system is defensins ('defense' + '-in', which is the suffix for anything protein related). They are proteins with antimicrobial properties and can kill microbes directly, which can be an alternative for antibiotics.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

pYvJ4 TIL that in the 18th century medical professionals used tobacco smoke enemas to treat ailments from the cold to cholera. Before the use of bellows became the norm the people administering the procedure needed to be careful if they started coughing and accidentally inhaling enema particulates.
b97E0 TIL that Hard Rock Cafe is entirely owned by the native american Seminole Tribe of Florida
0d9xM TIL the Kishi Station on the Wakayama Electric Railway Kishigawa Line in Japan has a stationmaster cat
JYeKQ TIL that when Indonesia's Mt. Tambora erupted in 1815, it ejected up to 51 cubic miles of pulverized rock and ash into the atmosphere. The debris blocked so much sunlight that it caused global cooling, with New England getting heavy snow into June.
xVeno TIL the grandson of Aztec ruler Moctezuma II was baptized and married a Spanish noblewoman, his son became the first count of Moctezuma and his descendants are a part of Spanish nobility to this day.