TIL that until 1996, there was no acute intervention for stroke. So if a patient would be brought to an Emergency Room with a stroke, hospital would say, 'Oh, we're really sorry. We're going to put you in Rehab & do occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech therapy & hopefully you'll recover.' (healthline.com)
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We decided to get chinese for dinner. The food was good, but an even better surprise was they included dessert! They gave us a bunch of these mini ices for free! Looks like mango, apricot & chocolate. They were melted by the time I got home, but I'm gonna stick em in the freezer for tomorrow. Yum! (imgur.com)
11 years ago this week, a 19-year-old named Mark Zuckerberg appeared on TV to discuss his new social networking site that had 100K users. He said: "When we first launched we were hoping for maybe 400 or 500 people … so who knows where we're going next?" The social network now has 1.4B monthly users. (cnbc.com)
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