Today in 1982: Jim Eisenreich, a rookie outfielder for the Twins hitting .309, left the game at Fenway in the middle of an inning.
He suffered from twitching and it became uncontrollable when Boston fans continuously taunted him.
When the team returned to Minnesota, Jim checked into a hospital for treatment. Doctors diagnosed him with Tourette's Syndrome.
He tried several comebacks the next few years, but could never control his symptoms. He retired from baseball in 1984.
Over the next two years, doctors found a way to treat his Tourette’s, and Jim returned to baseball in 1987 with Kansas City. He was named the MVP of the 1989 Royals, a team that featured Bo Jackson and George Brett.
After his comeback, he went on to play 12 more years in the big leagues, and batted over .300 in 5 of those seasons.
He now has a foundation that helps children with Tourette’s Syndrome.
#MLB #baseball #Royals @TouretteAssn
In Breaking Bad, even though Walter White’s MÉTH recipe is mentioned in fragments throughout Breaking Bad, it was intentionally designed to be incomplete INCOMPLETE and scientifically INACCURATE.
The writers worked closely with science advisors to ensure that, while the dialogue sounded authentic, it could never be reverse-engineered into a real, functional method.
Creator Vince Gilligan has stated that this was a conscious ethical decision, meant to prevent the show from becoming an instructional guide for illegal dr*g production.
Additionally, real methamphetamine, no matter how pure, is not blue. High-purity m3th is typically clear or white, and the blue color was invented purely as a visual storytelling device to make Walt’s product instantly recognizable and mythic.
Ironically, after the show became popular, law enforcement agencies reported occasional instances of real m3th in the Albuquerque area being dyed blue, seemingly as a marketing gimmick or homage to the series.
Gilligan later described this as both disturbing and surreal, reinforcing why the production had been so careful to fictionalize the chemistry: Breaking Bad was meant to explore consequences, not provide a blueprint.
These are viral squishy dumplings that have exploded in popularity with kids and adults
The smell is very strong. If you put them in a bag with a VOC meter, it reads a 6.8
🚨 This is an extremely serious levels. This means the fumes are more toxic than a can of paint
This is a children's toy meant for kids that are ages 3+
I looked it up and found these toys test so high, they’ve actually concluded they can do significant harm to little kids
These Chinese-made squishies are made from polyurethane foam, notorious for off-gassing VOCs like dimethylformamide, toluene, styrene, and others
Studies in Korea, the EU and Norway have found some squishies emit extremely high levels with risk assessments showing health concerns for young children
But they’re being sold in America, Canada and all over the world
Man said I didn’t forget how to coach, this team just sucks 😂
In all seriousness, I respect it … guys are getting PAID PAID now at the college level …
… you want to get big boy $$$, you better be ready for big boy criticism when you play like shit 🤷♂️
🚨#BREAKING: A shelter-in-place has been issued after a major explosion occurred at a refinery plant
📌#PortArthur | #Texas
At this time, numerous emergency crews are on the scene following a major explosion at a Valero refinery. Large flames are visible, with heavy smoke rising and seen for miles. Multiple witnesses reported feeling the ground shake at the time of the blast. A shelter-in-place order has been issued for nearby residents as a precaution while crews work to contain the situation. The cause of the explosion remains unknown and is currently under investigation.
The power of a dog's nose illustrated. Remarkable.
But, sure, the bomb-sniffing dog teams walked all around the place where Tyler Robinson's gun was 'found' (placed?), just missed it that day. Even my post-Covid nose can smell a freshly fired rifle...
Gout Gout was at Ipswich Grammar School to play soccer. He had never trained as a sprinter. He was twelve years old, wearing sand shoes, and somebody told him to line up for a race at the school carnival.
The kid next to him was wearing spikes. He had won nationals.
Gout left him in the dust.
His classmate Tyson Walker was in the race too. "Everyone there stopped and watched," Walker recalled. "We had GPS athletics the next week and he broke every record and just didn't stop. He's just kept going faster."
A coach named Di Sheppard saw him run that day. She told him he could be an Olympic medalist. He later said it was the first time anyone had ever told him anything like that. He was twelve. He joined her squad and started training twice a week.
Here is where the story gets strange.
At 14 he ran 10.57 in the 100m, the fastest ever by an Australian under 16. At 15 he broke the national U18 200m record. At 16 he clocked 10.04 in a heat, then 10.17 legal in the final, then woke up the next morning and ran 20.04 in the 200m, breaking Peter Norman's Australian record from the 1968 Olympics. That record had stood for 56 years. Usain Bolt saw the footage, posted a photo, and wrote "He looks like young me."
The Bolt comparison is worth sitting with. Bolt didn't race 100 meters professionally until he was 21. His first professional 100m was 10.03. Gout Gout ran 10.00 flat at 18.
And his coach still only puts him in the gym two days a week. She's managing the fact that his body is still growing. The power phase of his development hasn't started. He is running these times on stride length and raw top-end speed alone.
His parents are Dinka, from South Sudan. They fled to Egypt, then to Australia, two years before he was born. Third of seven children. The family name was misspelled during transliteration from Arabic. It was supposed to be Guot. His father has been trying to change it back because "gout" is a disease name.
The kid kept running.
Brisbane 2032. Home Olympics. He'll be 24, the same age Bolt was when he set the 100m world record in Berlin. Adidas already signed him through that year.
The fastest man in Australian history started in sand shoes at a school carnival. Nobody told him to stop.
HOW TO READ A FOOD LABEL IN 30 SECONDS
Rule 1:
Ignore the front.
It is advertising.
Turn the product around.
Rule 2:
Read the first 3 ingredients.
They make up the majority.
If sugar, wheat flour, or vegetable oil is in the first three, put it back.
Rule 3:
Count the ingredients.
More than 7 and half sound like chemicals?
It is a product, not food.
Bonus: Hidden sugar names —
Maltodextrin.
Dextrose.
Corn syrup.
Glucose syrup.
Fructose.
Sucrose.
Invert sugar.
All sugar.
Teach your children this.
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