Males can lactate apparently.
Still can’t sleep at night.
The average human being has (approximately) one testicle and one ovary.
Oh you fucke-
Every single one of us is travelling through space on a tiny speck of dirt, circling a permanent explosion that doesn’t know how to stop itself at 30km/s.
That explosion and multiple specks of dirt besides our own dance around the center of the galaxy in a complex ballet with 200 billion other permanently exploding balls of fire and plasma, many of which are sizeably larger than ours and also have collected pieces of dirt circling around them, at a speed of 200km/s. The center of this agglomeration of giant balls of fire and dirt is a… thing… that is in itself so massive it can’t help eating everything that comes near including suns, light, and the concept of time.And there, travelling around the center of the galaxy at 200km/s, spiraling around your sun at 30km/s, there is you. And somehow you have to work tomorrow.
Bloodletting is still a legitimate medical treatment, now called therapeutic phlebotomy.
Some medicines, like testosterone, can increase your hemoglobin or blood count, so donating blood is the fix for it.
Hemochromatosis, too. Body doesn’t eliminate iron so it can build up in organs, notably liver and kidneys.
The treatment is bloodletting. My wife wanted to get leeches. I settled for just donating 32 times in the first year after finding out. My ferritin count was 9 times the usual max for a man my age. My gallbladder fluid was carrying iron. I was Iron Man.
You’re a hero, Iron Man!
There are more grains of sand on the planet Earth than there are stars in the solar system.
Our solar system? So, more than 1?
Yeah. It’s like saying what weights more, a KG of iron or a KG or feathers.
That’s right, it’s a kilogramme of steel, because steel is heavier than feathers!
At standard temperature and pressure, the iron. You gave a unit of mass but asked which weighs more. The feathers are more buoyant. Both negatively buoyant in air of course, but the feathers less so.
Kg of iron. Iron is heavier than feathers
No, you see, they’re both a kilogram, Limmy.
Ethanol can help protect your liver from the damage an acetaminophen overdose causes.
You’d think that doubling up on liver harming substances would have an additive effect, but nope.
Similarly, ethanol can help protect you from the poisonous effects of methanol (wood alcohol). Methanol by itself isn’t actually harmful, but it gets broken down into harmful byproducts that will make you go blind and then kill you.
The enzyme responsible for breaking down methanol is also used to break down ethanol. And enzymes have a limited capacity for work. In other words, they can only break down a certain number of molecules at any given time. And the enzyme is more compatible with ethanol than methanol.
So if you suspect someone drank methanol, (it is a common ingredient in antifreeze), you should have them start taking shots. Pump them full of as much liquor as possible, as quickly as possible. Get them absolutely shitfaced ASAP, and keep them wasted until they get to the hospital. It will prevent the vast majority of the methanol from being broken down, which will prevent the actual poisoning from happening.
It’s ethylene glycol that’s commonly in antifreeze, but ethanol protects against that too. I believe methanol is common in windshield wiper fluid, though.
Rabbits must eat special poop straight from their butt as a part of a healthy diet.
Hot liquids can freeze faster than colder ones Mpemba effect
Looking this up, I just realized that Francis Bacon and Roger Bacon were different people.
Don’t leave poor Kevin out
I bet that family got taste!
France is bigger at Christmas than at Easter.
Reason: Pheasant Island.
There are over 100 volcanos on Antarctica
I like this fact and as a geologist I’m a little numb to facts about the Earth. At some level, all land on Earth has a volcanic origin by virtue of us having a molten core, a rigid mantle, and a crusty crust that seeps magma/lava. Time metamorphoses and sediments the rock in different ways. Antarctica just had the misfortune of migrating to the South Pole where millions of years of snow fall lead to its icy encapsulation.
Eel don’t have genitalia.
Well, eels only have genitalia for a very short and specific portion of their life cycle.
It’s wild that this discovery happened only a few weeks ago.
The volume a liquid takes up varies DRASTICALLY based on temperature and pressure.
Bonus fact. A significant amount of sea level rise due to climate change is caused by thermal expansion of the water.
If you get methanol poisoning for example from badly made liquor then the remedy for that is to drink ethanol (good liquor).
Same with acetaminophen poisoning.
I always keep a bottle of medicinal vodka around.
Also glycol poisoning. Like if you drink antifreeze for your car, one treatment is to drink a bunch of alcohol so the liver processes the alcohol and not the ethelyne glycol.
Is this for real? Any links? Not doubting you but it’s always been a dark thought I can’t push away about accidentally drinking that stuff.
This one talks about injecting ethanol straight into the veins for quick absorption. https://scienceinsights.org/treating-ethylene-glycol-poisoning-antidotes-and-dialysis/
Or this one. Skip to “ethanol treatment” https://archive.cdc.gov/www_atsdr_cdc_gov/csem/ethylene-propylene-glycol/treatment.html
I saw on TV where a woman tried to poison her husband with antifreeze, but since it was mixed with alcohol it took him more than a week to die.
thanks for the tip, now im less likely to be poisoned by an assassin.
Everything about fecal transplant. Or maybe just the fact that it is even a legitimate medical procedure
That really is a shitshow, indeed.
“You want my thesis? I hate college!! My thesis is going to be about taking a SHIT up your ASS!”
(Four years later)
“Wow, Mr. Blake! The results of your medical trial were astounding! These are excellent results!”
“Wait…huh?”
You can see where the pacific ocean meets the atlanic ocean
You can also see where the Baltic Sea meets the North Sea. Waves are rolling in from two directions.
EDIT: Looking further into this, the Kiel Canal which connects Baltic and North Sea is by some metric the world’s busiest canal. TIL!
In Panama?
Nope. Out in the open ocean
