› added 7 years ago

484

TIL: a 14 year old boy needed 13L of blood during emergency surgery decided that when he was 18 he was going to start giving blood. Doctors discovered a rare antibody in his blood. He has saved over 2.4 million unborn babies over 5 decades.

Read more youtube.com

via ift.tt

4XKnR TIL In Florida, executions are carried out by a private citizen who is paid $150 per execution.
Y7env TIL in 1992 Annette Herfkens was the sole survivor of a plane crash that included her fiancé & 28 others. Despite having 12 fractures in her hip, 2 in her leg, a broken jaw & a collapsed lung, she survived 8 days in a Vietnamese jungle on rainwater until a local officer came by & got help.
47Pa TIL that competitive full contact fighting in medieval suits of armor is a thing, and it is brutal.
5YOPk TIL that patients who suffered from aphasia, the inability to express speech, can start to produce words by singing. This is because aphasia damages the left hemisphere of the brain, while singing uses the right hemisphere.
wLypo TIL that a British officer named George Cairns got his arm cut off by a Japanese soldier. Cairns killed that Japanese soldier, stole his sword, and cut down several others until he succumbed to blood loss