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TIL of Martin Couney the creator of “Infantoriums”, A 20th century sideshow where people would pay 5 cents to view premature babies housed in incubators. Despite the ethics at the time premature babies were neglected and 4/5 died in hospitals. Couney is credited with saving the lives of 6,500 babies
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TIL of Mo-99—a radioactive isotope of Molybdenum used in hospitals to produce the radioactive tracer Technetium-99m (for medical imaging). Mo-99’s half-life is just 66 hours, and is made commercially in only 4 nuclear reactors around the world, most of which are reaching the end of their life.
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TIL Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays in Nov, 1895. The very next month, he took the first X-ray image using his wife’s hand; 2 months after that, X-rays were being used in multiple hospitals across the globe. By May, Thomas Edison developed the first mass-produced X-ray imaging device.
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