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TIL Malignant Hyperthermia is a deadly reaction to general anesthesia. Most don't know they have the condition until it's too late. It's the reason anesthesiologists always ask you if anyone in the family had a fatal reaction to anesthesia. (medlineplus.gov)

_"Malignant hyperthermia is a severe reaction to particular anesthetic drugs that are often used during surgery and other invasive procedures....

TIL “Pull Yourself Up By Your Bootstraps” was originally meant sarcastically, or to suggest an impossible accomplishment, because it is impossible for someone to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. (uselessetymology.com)

TIL that over 60% of jurisdictions in the US use algorithmic pretrial assessment tools to help determine who should be jailed before their court date and who should not.

Why YSK: In many places it can take years for a case to come to trial. Judges have to make a decision in such cases to determine whether an accused person should be jailed in the interim. In recent years many jurisdictions have adopted algorithmic tools that essentially create a “risk profile” which assigns a value....

TIL that in 1933 the first commercial airliner bombing destroyed United Air Lines Trip 23. No suspect was ever identified and no motive was ever revealed. (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL about Blanche Monnier, a French woman who was kept locked in a small room for 25 years after she tried marrying someone her mother didn't like. She laid there in her own excrement, starving, for over 2 decades. (en.wikipedia.org)

"In 1876, at the age of 27, she desired to marry an older lawyer who was not to her mother's liking; she argued that her daughter could not marry a "penniless lawyer".[4] Her disapproving mother, angered by her daughter's defiance, locked her in a tiny, dark room in the attic of their home, where she kept her secluded for 25...

TIL that in industrialized countries, the most widespread contact allergy is to nickel, impacting 8-19% of adults and 8-10% of children, with women being 4-10 times more likely to be affected than men. (en.wikipedia.org)

The Wanamaker Organ - A short video tour of the world's largest operating musical instrument at 7 stories tall, with more than 28,000 pipes (5:11) (youtu.be)

A tour of the vast maze of the 28,000+ pipes and baffles and bellows and wires and wooden stairways that lie hidden behind the Wanamaker Organ in Philadelphia.

TIL horses sleep standing up, but lie down to dream. (www.scientificamerican.com)

Horses are specially built to snooze on their hooves, but there’s a catch

TIL you can drag items over other items in the crafting grid

Despite having played VS for 1000s of hours today I learned that i can drag items over other items in the crafting grid and they're not replaced. For example placing plans in the middle for gates, then being able to drag sticks over all 6 spots will not remove the planks in the middle.