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🌟 Good News of the Day — #FridayFunFact
Breaking (wind) news.
Researchers built sensor-equipped "Smart Underwear" to measure flatulence — and found healthy adults fart an average of 32 times a day. For science!
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#science #goodnewsoftheday #FridayFunFact
Coin, bronze, 2 sides, one with a middle-aged bearded white man in a crown, the other simple block lettering.
Five British colonies formed the Australian Commonwealth in 1900.🪙
Coins followed in 1910. All of Australia’s official currency, including this, it’s first penny, was minted at London’s Royal Mint until the 1920s.
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**Party like the hummingbirds!** 🍷🐦
Did you know? Hummingbirds regulate their alcohol intake from fermented nectar—unlike chimps (who eat rotten fruit) or hamsters (who could outdrink us all!).
They prefer <1% alcohol- *small beer* equivalent for their tiny bodies!
#FridayFunFact #Nature #Science
Vintage bank note reading “Dix Piastres,” with detailed engravings and a portrait, on a blue background.
🛡️💵 Hard to fake.
In the 1850s, two-colour printing became the norm to reduce counterfeiting. By the end of the century, printers were trying multiple colours to up their game. Registering the different colours was very challenging!
#FPM2026
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Bank note, green, elaborate frame of geometric patterns and a balding man in a tall collar.
💡#DYKT in 1935 the Bank issued unilingual bank notes?🪙
The French notes were distributed mostly in Quebec but it didn’t take long for them to make their way to the rest of Canada. #InternationalFrancophonieDay #FridayFunFact
Coin, silver with two pillars, a crown and a coat of arms.
🏴☠️ A pirate’s quarter?💰
“Pieces of 8” is the popular term for Spanish 8 reales coins. To make change, it was often cut into 4 sections. A quarter of it was called “2 bits,” which is still a nickname for US and Canadian 25¢ pieces.
#FridayFunFact
Flat, green, oxidized iron blade with long handle and loop at the end.
💰✨Representative money
China was an agrarian society for most of its existence. Early uses of money resembled farming tools such as spades and knives to facilitate trade. Eventually tools were replaced with cash pieces.
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Every day, your bone marrow produces ~500 billion blood cells, replacing your entire blood supply about every 120 days.
#FridayFunFact #BoneMarrow #LabSymplified
Plastic card, three horizontal stripes, blue, white and gold.
💳 Remember Chargex? No? 🤔It was Canada’s first universal charge card.
It had a fixed limit that you were expected to pay off at the end of the month. Initially there was a $300 limit.
These days, it’s called a VISA card.💳
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Beyond the platelet count on a CBC, platelet behavior and activation play a critical role in clot formation, influencing the risk of heart attacks and strokes even when counts are “normal.”
#FridayFunFact #ClinicalLaboratory
🎬 Friday Fun Fact!
The “Wilhelm Scream” has appeared in over 400 movies and TV shows since the 1950s. Once you hear it, you’ll start noticing it everywhere 👀🎧
#FridayFunFact #FilmTrivia #SoundDesign #MidpenMedia
Coin, grey metal, profile of man with wreath in his hair and a small square of darker metal near his ear.
🪙✨ A bi-metallic coin.
When this coin was minted, there was a shortage of copper in Great Britain. Charles II minted tin farthings with a tiny plug of copper stuck in the middle to foil counterfeiters.
Two metals= bi-metallic.
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Streptococcus pneumoniae may look simple under the microscope, but its polysaccharide capsule plays a major role in its ability to evade immune defenses and cause disease.
#FridayFunFact #ClinicalMicrobiology #LabScience
Photo, black and white, young woman in a silk dress wearing a diamond tiara.
#OTD in 1952, Princess Elizabeth became Queen Elizabeth II.
She was in Kenya when she heard the news her father passed and she had become Queen.
Read all about our “Queen of the Bank Notes” on the blog.
👉 https://bit.ly/3w9UT5O
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Cheque, geometric patterning in rainbow colours.
So, what is it? 🤔
It’s a low value cheque or micro bank draft called an “Assegno.”
It was issued in late ’70s Italy to be used as small change during a severe coin shortage.
This 100-lira note was then worth around 13 cents. #FridayFunFact
Documentation is still one of the biggest CAP pain points for a lot of labs.
Digital procedures mean less scrambling, and more compliance.
#laboratory #CAP #FridayFunFact
Coin, rough, gold, one side a crowned king, the other a crowned shield with 4 national symbols.
🪙A 17th Century Commemorative Coin.
When James the VI of Scotland became James I of England, the two nations became one.
A British 20-shilling coin of the era was called a “unite” in honour of the event. #FridayFunFact
ELISAs remain essential in diagnostic testing, with sandwich ELISAs offering enhanced sensitivity through dual-antibody capture. This design enables reliable detection of low-abundance targets and continues to support accurate clinical decision-making.
#FridayFunFact #ELISA
Coin, copper, green corrosion, large square hole in centre flanked by Asian characters.
💰 Dynastic Currency.
This bronze coin is from the Xin, or “new,” Dynasty. Hardly new any longer, the dynasty’s emperor Wang Mang was overthrown and assassinated around 2,000 years ago! #FridayFunFact
Coin, roughly cast, misshapen, cross stamped in middle.
The HMS Feversham, a British warship, sank at Scatarie Island near Louisbourg, Cape Breton in 1711.
Amongst its cargo was a hoard of coins from several places, including this 17th century Bolivian coin.
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Coin, circular with 12 rounded facets to the edge, a beaver in centre, profile of a young man on the back.
A Unique Coin. 🪙
Our 1937 nickels were round, but this one has 12 sides.
It’s likely a test piece for the brass-alloy coin that would become our wartime “nickel” and the only example we know of. #FridayFunFact
It is Friday Fun Fact time!
Döhle bodies appear when the body is under stress from infection, burns, trauma, or tissue injury. Paired with toxic granulation or a left shift, they help laboratorians understand a patient's diagnosis.
#FridayFunFact #Hematology #ClinicalLaboratory
Did you know there's a parasite that can grow longer than your foot?
#FridayFunFact #Parasitology #AscarisLumbricoides
Crudely cast coin with profile of a woman with elaborate hair.
🪙👑Deities inspire confidence.
If you’re a ruler trying to create confidence in your currency, you put your head on it, right? Not necessarily.
You might go straight to the top and put a goddess on it—such as Athena on this Ancient Greek coin.
#FridayFunFact
D-dimer may not give us all the answers, but its strong negative predictive value makes it one of the most trusted rule-out tools in emergency medicine. A normal result can save time, reduce imaging, and guide clinicians with confidence.
#FridayFunFact #ClinicalLaboratory #LabSymplified
Friday Fun Fact: The final U.S. penny was minted on Nov 12, 2025. But pennies haven’t been mostly copper since 1982—rising copper prices made real copper too valuable to use. A reminder that copper is scarce and valuable. And that’s exactly why Kilo Reserve exists. #CopperFacts #FridayFunFact
Bank note, Arctic Ocean landscape, 6 Inuit, men bending to ready kayaks for hunting.
It’s International Circumpolar Inuit Day!
🤔 #DYKT all the men on this note are identified?
Left to right: Gideon Qitsualik, Lazarus Paniluk, Solomon Kalluk, Ullattitaq Paul Idlout, Joseph Idlout and Elijah Erkloo.
Read the blog 👉 https://bit.ly/430x1ju
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Fun Fact Friday Incoming!
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#FridayFunFact: Back in the day, the longtime hosts of Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune each appeared on Rugrats.
Their eventual successors (though one was eventually ousted from hosting) each played a guest role on Hey Arnold!
Fun Fact Friday Incoming!
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