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Remove your computer and your room looks stuck in the 1970s

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Pliny the Elder says human earwax could cure wounds from human bites, scorpions, and snakes

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Boiled potato peels seem to outperform standard gauze dressings for successful burn wound recovery

Potato peels themselves have "no intrinsic antibacterial activity"

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"We cut your hospital bill by 35x when we temporarily stored part of your skill in your abdomen"

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"We saved the patient's hand from amputation via sewing it to his abdomen"

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~40% of patients with Brain Death seemed to still show motor movements after diagnosis

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Bee swarms help create thunder storms

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Oil deposits are linked to the origin of tornados

Look for where tornadoes occur frequently and you'll find black gold

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"We saved the patient's hand from amputation via sewing it to his abdomen"

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Many say human limb regeneration is not possible, but there are several cases of human fingertip regeneration in children!

There's a dividing line between where you either have perfect restoration or none at all. Takes ~3 months for everything to grow back.

@LandsharkRides

[St. Brendan's Islander @jerfalcon]

According to the 19th century Persian falconer Husam al-Dawlah, what was the true "sport of kings"?

Follow along for the answer, friends: 5 steps to train a cheetah as a royal hunting companion, a thread 🧵🧵

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"Actually, the vaccine reduces cancer"

[Roxanne Khamsi @rkhamsi]

New feature story in @TheAtlantic by me:

I've known Michel Goldman for years and never imagined I'd write this story. As he faces his cancer and the mystery around it, he's sharing a COVID twist... while trying not to undermine his message on vaccines:

https://t.co/FTgKEp2WSH

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Chinese Princess, Dou Wan, buried in a jade suit because it was believed jade would grant immortality

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Jade changes color the longer you wear it - (Some) Chinese

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During the Black Plague, opal earned a reputation for changing color whenever someone contracted the plague

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Jade changes color the longer you wear it - (Some) Chinese

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@Babygravy9 https://t.co/OEY4y5lFSM

>It actually happened"

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10 years from now they're going to track patient zero for a new type of prion disease to a raypeat adjacent message board

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@readynafewdays Chop Chop, Ketchup, Feng Shui seem like the only Chinese words to have become popular in English in recent memory. Big contrast from Japanese.
https://t.co/15koeM3KUb

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From Lucian, Scythian Toxaris talks how Scythians do not make friendship "over the winecup" like Greeks, but through valiant deeds

[Bactrian 🌴 @ElegantiaeArbit]

Certain kind of geriatric millennial culture I hate. Bernie socialism, beard oils, axe throwing, brewpubs, whiskey and beer aficionados, retro gaming, Joss Whedon dialogue irl, Chuck Wendig-esque use of profanity. Hate it. No idea what its called. I call it “soylennial”

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Do NOT let a menstruating woman touch your flowers. She will kill them.

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Thinking how seizures can fluctuate in frequency or severity across a woman's menstrual cycle (catamenial epilepsy)

Supposed to correlate with estradiol and progesterone levels

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@slow___up @KhalkeionGenos @EVSRespecter Dugin is a big deal with these types in Ukraine and it's good PR for them in the West to get rid of someone like that + he has no security detail.

If you were familiar with the conflict beyond this year, this wouldn't be controversial.

https://t.co/BViXcvKJlg

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@KhalkeionGenos @EVSRespecter He's been banned from Ukraine since 2006.

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China's Oracle Bones were only rediscovered in 1899.

Scholar Wang Yirong realized the dragon bone he was going to crush to cure his malaria had the similar writing like like the ancient bronze inscriptions he was studying.

[Stone Tool Poet 🌲 @PalatinePuritan]

Had it not been discovered by the French shortly after their arrival in 1799, the Rosetta Stone would still today be part of an unknown back-alley wall in a random Egyptian flea market.

The entire hieroglyphic language would be unreadable; we would know nothing of ancient Egypt.

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@c2_lach @RWApodcast He's been banned from Ukraine since 2006