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04 Apr 2019, 11:33 am

Medical error is estimated to be the 3rd biggest killer in the US. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine concluded that over a quarter of a million people died in 2013 due to mistakes made by health care professionals. That number, which was based only on people who died inside a hospital, is more than double the number of suicides, firearm deaths, and motor vehicle fatalities combined.
(That number doesn’t account for those who died after they were mistakenly sent home. Medical error is not included in cause of death rankings or on death certificates, and these fatal mistakes often go unreported. This ultimately causes other medical professionals to encounter the same life-threatening mistakes because they’ve no examples to reference as a warning.)


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04 Apr 2019, 11:43 am

There are three basic types of melanin: eumelanin, pheomelanin, and neuromelanin.

The most common type is eumelanin, of which there are two sub-types -- brown eumelanin and black eumelanin -- which are responsible for skin coloration.

Pheomelanin is a cysteine-derivative that contains polybenzothiazine portions that are largely responsible for the color of red hair, among other pigmentation.

Neuromelanin is found in the brain. Research has been undertaken to investigate its efficacy in treating neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's.



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04 Apr 2019, 4:53 pm

The role of Peter Pan/Banning in Hook was originally meant to be played by Michael Jackson before the part was rewritten for Robin Williams.



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05 Apr 2019, 12:17 pm

In Japan, public napping is a sign of hard work. It’s called ‘inemuri,’ which means ‘sleeping on duty’ or ‘sleeping while present.’ Because falling asleep in public is thought to be a symptom of working yourself to exhaustion, it’s socially acceptable in restaurants, stores, commuter trains, and on park benches- as long as you don’t sprawl out and take up too much space.


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05 Apr 2019, 7:06 pm

A Tonkinese cat is a cross between a Burmese and a Siamese.



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06 Apr 2019, 10:24 am

An Ocicat is a cross between a Siamese/Oriental Shorthair and an Abyssinian.



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06 Apr 2019, 4:57 pm

The game of Twister was first called Pretzel, but the name was changed when Milton Bradley acquired it. The game was a flop until Johnny Carson played it on his show with actress Eva Gabor, the audience went wild, and sales skyrocketed. Some stores still refused to sell ‘sex in a box,’ so MB advertised it as ‘fun for the whole family’ and tried to boost its image by depicting relatives of all ages getting into weird positions together.


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06 Apr 2019, 9:24 pm

A pigeon’s olfactory system is behind its eyeballs.


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07 Apr 2019, 12:16 pm

Since 1922, over 30 cash rewards of up to $1,000,000 have been offered to anyone who can offer proof of the paranormal. To this day, none has ever been claimed.


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09 Apr 2019, 5:29 pm

Charlie Chaplin entered a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest and came in third.



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13 Apr 2019, 10:29 am

The word "factoid" doesn't refer to a fun fact, but to a false fact, something you know that isn't so.



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14 Apr 2019, 2:03 pm

Human beings can be chimeras, meaning that they have two sets of DNA.


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16 Apr 2019, 9:13 pm

John the Baptist was Jesus’ cousin.


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20 Apr 2019, 10:29 am

The creator of Barbie named the doll after her daughter Barbara.


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23 Apr 2019, 10:47 am

Frog and Toad were probably more than just friends. Author Arnold Lobel told his family he was gay 4 years after publishing his first Frog and Toad book, and, according to his daughter, the pair are "of the same sex, and they love each other." Though he never publicly linked them with his sexuality, she thinks "Frog and Toad was really the beginning of his coming out."


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23 Apr 2019, 4:52 pm

John Wilkes Booth was only 27 years old when he was killed.

Charles Starkweather was only 21 when executed.

Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were only 17 when they committed suicide.

Yet these young men changed our American culture/ society forever.

For the worse.


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