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TIL that during the Mexican-American War, nearly 90 percent of US Army deaths were due to infectious diseases, the highest of any US conflict

by whatilearned August 31, 2022, 7:44 pm

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Fuck diseases

by cringeyjokesman August 23, 2022, 10:32 pm

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TIL In the country of Georgia you can undergo treatment for bacterial diseases using viruses called Bacteriophages, which have shown potential as a solution to antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

by whatilearned August 11, 2022, 7:30 am

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TIL Shampoo was introduced to Britain in 1814. The Bengali surgeon Sake Dean Mahomed opened the Isles’ first shampoo bath in Brighton that year and promoted the practice as able to cure many diseases and give full relief when everything else failed.

by whatilearned July 27, 2022, 11:23 am

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TIL Claire Chennault, leader of the Flying Tigers and eventual 14th Air Force Commander, built a brothel. “His men were going to visit brothels, regardless of what the rules said,” and it was “better to have his “boys” visit a brothel that was regularly inspected to reduce venereal diseases.”

by whatilearned July 5, 2022, 12:55 am

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If Scrooge McDuck bathes naked in a pool full of money, what diseases might he possibly contract?

by QuestionGuy June 11, 2022, 5:37 am

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With school shooting, ongoing war in Europe, food shortage and impending financial collapse all over the world. Along with new diseases popping up (either naturally or man made)… where is the world heading towards? How to keep the positive flowing without turning blind eye to the news?

by QuestionGuy May 26, 2022, 10:01 pm

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TIL A lab in Guangzhou, China breeds infertile mosquitoes in a lab and releases them to slow the spread of diseases like Zika and Malaria.

by whatilearned May 15, 2022, 2:57 am

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TIL that there are 600-700 cases of flesh-eating diseases diagnosed each year, and 25-30% result in death.

by whatilearned May 12, 2022, 11:33 pm

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TIL about Lisan Al-Din Ibn Al-Khatib, an Andalusian polymath who proposed the idea of transmissible diseases, and more precisely that the Bubonic Plague was transmitted from person to person, centuries before Louis Pasteur and John Snow

by whatilearned May 9, 2022, 1:37 am

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Dream will cure all diseases and end world hunger (OC)

by CopyPastaArchive April 7, 2022, 2:04 pm

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TIL: When bug zappers electrocute mosquitos and other insects, they spray a mist containing their body parts up to 2 meters. Some even believe that that residue can transmit the same diseases they carry.

by whatilearned April 5, 2022, 5:14 pm

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