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• Freediver Walks 351 Feet Underwater with Just One Breath
• Leading Causes of Deaths in London, 1632
• First Edition Harry Potter Book Bought for 50 Pence and Covered in Doodles Sold for £15,500

Freediver Walks 351 Feet Underwater with Just One Breath Posted: 10 Mar 2022 07:08 AM PST New record: Longest underwater walk with one breath (male) - 107 metres (351ft 0.5in) Free diver Croatian Vitomir Maricic went for a gentle stroll along his local swimming pool 🏊 pic.twitter.com/CA3nnt4Yte — Guinness World Records (@GWR) March 9, 2022 Vitomir Maričić, a Croatian freediver, is a master athelete in his sport. Lat year, he smashed through the Guinness World Record for the longest underwater walk. That record had also been held by a Croatian freediver and was almost 315 feet. Maričić conducted his attempt at the pool of Thalassotherapia Opatija, a rehabilitation center in Croatia, in September of last year. Maričić says that he didn't actually train for this project. As a world-class freediver, he didn't need to. Instead, he held a weight (to keep himself from rising) and walked back and forth along the 164-foot pool for 3 minutes and 6 seconds.

Leading Causes of Deaths in London, 1632 Posted: 09 Mar 2022 04:21 PM PST We all complain about the terrible state of healthcare in modern times, but medicine has gone a long way towards saving people from preventable and treatable diseases. Take, for example, this gruesome chart above listing the deaths due to the diseases and other reasons in 1632, London. The data was compiled from bills of mortality, a weekly death statistics produced by several parishes of the City of London during the outbreaks of plague in 1592 to 1595 and then continuously from 1603. Some definitions: Affrighted = stress-induced heart attack Ague = fever with periods of shivering and sweats (like malaria) Apoplex = stroke and aneurysm, Meagrom = migraine or severe headache Bit with a mad dog = rabies Bloody flux, scouring and flux = dysentery Cancer and wolf = malignant tumor Childbed = infection after childbirth Chrisomes, and infants = babies less than a month old Colick, stone, and strangury = abdominal pain and painful urination Consumption = tuberculosis Cut of the stone = surgery to remove bladder or kidney stones Dropsie and swelling = edema or swelling of a body part Falling sickness = epilepsy and seizures Flocks and small pox = smallpox  Fistula = abnormal connection of two body parts French pox = syphilis Jaundies = jaundice or yellowing of the skin due to liver failure Jawfaln = "jaw fallen" or lockjaw, tetanus Impostume = abscess King's evil = scrofula, where tuberculosis bacteria infects the lymph nodes in the neck Livergrown = rickets, caused by vitamin D deficiency Lunatique = mental illness Made away themselves = suicide Over-laid = infant smothered when a parent rolled onto them while sleeping, Starved at nurse = insufficient breast milk Palsie = paralysis Piles = hemorrhoids Planet = "planet-struck" or a sudden and severe paralysis, thought to be due to the forces of particular planets Pleurisie = swollen and inflamed tissue that surrounds the lungs Purples = bruising, Spotted feaver = typhus Quinsie = inflamed tonsils Rising of the lights = severe coughing. "Lights" are "lungs," named so because they are light-weight organs. Surfet = overeating Teeth = babies that have not yet gone through teething Thrush = yeast infection Tympany = cancer in the abdomen Tissick = cough Further reading: Bills of mortality and A Collection of the Yearly Bills of Mortality, from 1657 to 1758 Inclusive by Thomas Birch, published in 1759 by A. Millar. Image via r/coolguides

First Edition Harry Potter Book Bought for 50 Pence and Covered in Doodles Sold for £15,500 Posted: 09 Mar 2022 03:44 PM PST Accio beaucoup bucks! If you've got a first edition Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (which was renamed Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone for the USA market), it could be worth a lot of money - even if the book is well thumbed or even doodled on! This hardback copy of the first Harry Potter book - one of only 500 in the first print run in 1997 - was just sold at auction for a staggering £15,500 (USD 20,400), more than five times the top estimate of £3,000. That's a lot of galleons in the Gringotts Wizarding Bank! The book was sold to an anonymous online bidder. The book seller, a businessman who wished to remain anonymous, picked the book up at a charity shop last year for only 50p. Charles Hanson, owner of the Hansons Auctioneers and the auctioneer on the day the book was sold, said this about the doodled book: "What a battle for the battered and bruised Potter! We're calling it the Mancunian Potter because it was found in a charity shop in the city. "In my opinion, it deserves to be in a museum. Those doodles, penned by a child who loved the book and its characters, encapsulate the power of the Potter phenomenon. It really is quite charming. I'm absolutely delighted for the seller – and the buyer who has purchased a piece of book history." Images: Hansons

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