This morning when my alarm went off I was deeply dreaming, which is unusual to me.

And, I was dreaming about being miserably stuck in a very much not stepparent-friendly breakout exercise at a PTA event at my stepkids' school

while the Greatest American Hero theme song blasted over the school cafeteria PA system

and somehow that just feels absolutely fucking peak #GenX

#BelieveItOrNot #EarWorm

The COCARETTE was a cigarette made with coca & tobacco leaves, c.1885. The company claimed that coca was “the finest nerve tonic and exhilarator ever discovered.”

#histodons #histmed #histodon #medhist #medhistorian #medmastodon #believeitornot #DYK

18th-century pewter syringe recovered from the shipwreck of the Queen Anne's Revenge, the famed flagship of the pirate Black Beard. The syringe contained mercury, which most likely treated pirates aboard ailing from syphilis. More info: https://www.livescience.com/49563-blackbeard-pirate-ship-yields-medical-supplies.html

#histodons #histodon #history #histmed #histsci #believeitornot #FF #FollowFriday

On #InternationalWomensDay, watch this story of a woman scientist, Rosalind Franklin, who was denied credit for her discovery. Find out more on this in #BelieveItOrNot with @PoojaShali.

#Scientist #SocialMediaSpecial #ITNewsbyte https://t.co/tREI6uGY62

The decellularized GHOST HEART is created by stripping living cells from a pig’s heart. Researchers at the Texas Heart Institute hope that one day it could serve as a scaffold upon which to grow a working heart from human stem cells. More info via Science Friday: https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/ghost-heart-engineering/

#believeitornot #histmed #histsci #heart #cardiologist #cardiology #MedMastodon

@IndiaToday RT by @aiww: Ever wondered Why your heart is never tired? Find out more on this in #BelieveItOrNot with @poojashali. #ITReel #SocialMediaSpecial #Heart #Medical https://nitter.hongkongers.net/IndiaToday/status/1625796216817606657#m

Basically 100 years ago wealth being concentrated in a small minority of families in United States led to events that caused the collapse of the stock market, the economy and eventually New Deal. It feels as if we’ve forgotten the hard lessons that period of history taught us. #believeitornot #historyisnomystery

#GreatestAmericanHero ran three seasons, #BelieveItOrNot (One of the best TV theme songs.)

Sign this @theactionnet petition: Sign to tell #USCongress: #ImpeachTrump. Sign here: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/sign-to-tell-congress-impeach-trump-2?source=Fediverse& #politics #USofA #BelieveItOrNot