What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?

[Pat Mustard]

That Steven McRae also exists.

It's obvious we have very different taste in men.

Not a fan of gingers?

[Anomalocaris]

Before the widespread advent of antibiotics, one of the treatments for syphilis was to infect the patient with malaria. The resultant high fever would destroy the STD and (if the patient survived) the malaria could be treated with quinine.

This regimen appears not to have been a rousing success.

Boru

i always thought a hammer blow to the head, delivered with sufficient enthusiasm and vigor, cures any disease.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Before the widespread advent of antibiotics, one of the treatments for syphilis was to infect the patient with malaria. The resultant high fever would destroy the STD and (if the patient survived) the malaria could be treated with quinine.

This regimen appears not to have been a rousing success.

Boru

i always thought a hammer blow to the head, delivered with sufficient enthusiasm and vigor, cures any disease.

You would.

Boru

[Jackalope]

It has the virtue of both a 100% success and fatality rate.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

TNT was originally used as a yellow dye. Its explosive properties were not discovered until almost 30 years after it was invented.

Boru

[Silver]

A former word for psychologist is alienist.

Makes sense.

[Rev. Rye]

That the next time I'm going to leave the house, I'm probably going to have to go to Subway:

[brewer]

The FDA has asked the DEA to reclassify cannabis from schedule 1 to schedule 3.

[brewer]

There are caterpillars that have stingers with poison sacks.

[Rev. Rye]

In his Beatles days (at least between 1967 and 1969), George Harrison used what are basically the equivalent of Medium Gauge strings with a wound G.