r/mildyinteresting • • May 16 '26

science savvy 🧬 This is what the lethal dosage of fentanyl looks like.

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r/mildyinteresting • • Sep 11 '26

science savvy 🧬 Morning meds after a heart transplant

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r/mildyinteresting • • 8d ago

science savvy 🧬 Saudi Arabia has one of the world's best conjoined twin separation programs. This is the father hugging the surgeon after the 73rd surgery.

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These surgeries are provided free of charge to the families, regardless of nationality. This operation, which involved 13-month-old Moroccan twins Saja and Duha, was led by Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah and 23 specialists that worked six stages over ten hours.

r/mildyinteresting • • Feb 15 '26

science savvy 🧬 My big toe hurt pretty bad, so I took off my socks

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Think I nicked myself when cleaning my toenails, blood flow doing its thing

r/mildyinteresting • • 29d ago

science savvy 🧬 China’s Zhejiang University had a professor take off in a jetpack at its open day.

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r/mildyinteresting • • Sep 09 '26

science savvy 🧬 My surgical scar from childhood does not get dirty

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I was in a motorcycle accident at age 10, a head on collision and my arm snapped from the impact while holding down the throttle. I had to have my arm set and a plate put in to hold down the growth plate. Fast forward 34 years and the surgical scar has never gotten dirty 🤔

r/mildyinteresting • • May 30 '26

science savvy 🧬 I absorbed my fraternal twin and have the different blood types.

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I was also born ambidextrous!

r/mildyinteresting • • 24d ago

science savvy 🧬 Chegg, a company that helps student with their homework, got completely obliterated by AI

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r/mildyinteresting • • Jul 06 '26

science savvy 🧬 The letters of this suncream bottle have floated away.

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Theory is that the alcohol in the suncream and printing methods, on the transparent label allowed the ink of the letters to detach. All the letters generally kept their integrity though, which I found extra fascinating.

r/mildyinteresting • • Feb 15 '26

science savvy 🧬 THIS IS THE MOST DETAILED VIEW OF A HUMAN CELL TO DATE

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r/mildyinteresting • • Nov 30 '25

science savvy 🧬 Recent MRI of my brain

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r/mildyinteresting • • Jan 27 '26

science savvy 🧬 If this metal touches you, you will smell like rancid garlic for weeks from your sweat and breath.

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r/mildyinteresting • • Mar 09 '26

science savvy 🧬 I can constrict my pupils on cue

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r/mildyinteresting • • Mar 24 '26

science savvy 🧬 The left side represents the most common false memories from the Mandela Effect—a psychological phenomenon where large groups of people share the same vivid but incorrect recollection.

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r/mildyinteresting • • Apr 28 '26

science savvy 🧬 The sun on this car perfectly illustrates the blue/gold dress phenomenon.

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r/mildyinteresting • • 12d ago

science savvy 🧬 The amount of ink I used in my first 2 months of medical school

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r/mildyinteresting • • Apr 27 '26

science savvy 🧬 Earth produces constant low-frequency vibrations… and their source is still not fully understood.

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Seismic instruments detect continuous low-frequency vibrations coming from Earth.

Most of it is explained by natural causes like ocean waves and tectonic activity.

But when viewed globally, there appears to be a persistent background rhythm across the planet.

We usually dismiss it as noise…

But what if there’s more structure to it than we realize?

r/mildyinteresting • • Mar 15 '26

science savvy 🧬 My friends finger nail glows under black light

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I brought a UV flashlight into work today and discovered my friends pinky fingers glow green, he’s washed them vigorously and yet they still do this, his nails look fine without the UV light

r/mildyinteresting • • Feb 18 '26

science savvy 🧬 Pillcam I had to swallow that takes thousands of pictures of my intestines as it travels

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I have to do it yearly for crohns disease, and you wear bluetooth equipment around you that it sends the images to, and you wear it for about 8hours. A few images of my intestines for anyone interested and not squeamish https://imgur.com/a/boIQfiV

r/mildyinteresting • • 4d ago

science savvy 🧬 Irreplaceable Human Cells

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This is image is not AI generated my camera has water damage, spotted these at the cargo dock of an airport. What makes them irreplaceable?

r/mildyinteresting • • 1d ago

science savvy 🧬 My body is held up by the spine equivalent of a car jack

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r/mildyinteresting • • Jun 03 '26

science savvy 🧬 Old pasta sauce I left out over night expanded and looks like it's gonna explode. Why?

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r/mildyinteresting • • Mar 08 '26

science savvy 🧬 Grey line on finger

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Have had it for approx 3 yrs now. but comparing to a picture from 2 yrs ago, I’m noticing that it has become more noticeable (in color and width)

doctors of reddit help a girl out :( (also i have an upcoming appointment w/ family doctor in 2 days)

OK CLARIFICATION bc some of u are drawing conclusions on how white/pale the nails are: No, it is not Terry's. It is due to RECURRING SEVERE ANEMIA. We're talking ferritin levels of 5 and 7 that took MONTHS of treatment to get back to normal values.

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MINI UPDATE: Turns out this is clinically quite common in people with darker pigmentation like myself, and in most cases it’s just a benign mole under the nail (melanocytic naevus), especially when it's been present for a few yrs. family doctor said cancer cases are more common in people with lighter skin tones, but to be safe and 100% sure I was given a dermatology referral and the appointment has been booked!

we shan't be defeated (yet)! and to be continued ig? (thank u to everyone for the kind words and laughs <3)

r/mildyinteresting • • Apr 22 '26

science savvy 🧬 Opened a tub of electrolyte powder and this fractal-looking pattern had formed on the lid

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I thought it was a print at first 😭

r/mildyinteresting • • 4d ago

science savvy 🧬 My veins too small so I have to get IV put into my foot

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Even with ultrasound guided attempts the anaesthetist had to put it in my foot because it was the only area they could get a vein