“Surgeons used to operate on infants without anesthesia, including open heart surgery. They have stopped this, however. In the 1980s.”
SueSudio
“Manatees have vaginas that are the most anatomically similar to humans. Manatees may also be the inspiration for myths about mermaids, beautiful half-fish women that lured sailors to their deaths. Connecting those dots have been mentally scarring.”
TacticalMicrowav3
“Often people that fracture their tibia (big shin bone) but not their fibula (thin shin bone) think they’re okay to stand up and when they put weight through that leg then the fibula breaks too.”
ibescribbling
“Apparently, Japan bombed China with fleas infected with bubonic plague during World War 2. Big rain I think.”
ColeWew
“It takes three full rotations to remove the human head because of the skins elasticity.”
a_soggy_poptart15374
“My mom told me I have my grandma’s nipples. I am a dude.”
Poodle_Warrior
“Tumors can grow teeth.”
ueukiwi
“There are corpses on Mount Everest which are used as waypoints. Hey look! There is no limbs Dereck, I guess we’re going the right way!”
BeauMere
“There is a chance you might fall in a sleep paralysis-like state when under anesthesia. Meaning you’ll feel your surgery while being unable to move. I feel bad for Diavolo now.”
CrossesOnOurEyes
“There is a phenomenon known as “stone baby” where a fetus dies and doesn’t get absorbed by the body, so it calcifies inside the mother’s abdomen. People have been known to carry around these mummified fetuses for 40 years, totally unaware.”
veryveryplain
“Since the eyes and nose are connected, blood from a nose bleed can travel to your tear ducts and start draining from there.”
pleasedontrefertome
“Their was a time in England were you could feed your pet to the lions in a zoo to avoid paying.”
Beanconsumer123
“There is a type of insomnia that will kill you, life expectancy is around a year after onset. FFI – Fatal familial insomnia.”
AUBlazin
“Parmesan cheese and vomit contain butyric acid and it is responsible for the most distinct aspects of their smells.”
Whatawaist
“Every time you walk into a stinky public bathroom, you are inhaling tiny bits of strange peoples s@#t. Right in your mouth.”
ChaseDonovan
“The only part of your reflection that you can lick is your tongue.”
imwhittling
“The fact that dogs like squeaky toys because it sounds like their prey crying out in pain.”
Shislers-List
“Starfish can get infected and rip themselves apart.”
SirTriangleTheThird
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It was either that or have a very likely chance of killing the baby or giving it brain damage due to anesthesia being too difficult to safely administer to them when they are so young.
Even now, as in this very day, sedating a child younger than 3 even a single time will likely have a degree of impact on their cognitive development. It is something that they try to avoid at all costs.
USSA
https://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/17/opinion/l-why-infant-surgery-without-anesthes
ia-went-unchallenged-832387.html
United Socialist States of America - went right over you.
This country's sure as hell been going down the drain
We know what we need
We know who to blame
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