31: The genius of cheese slices
Lateral with Tom Scott
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The Unwritten Line Before Food
A woman was taken to a London hospital on Wednesday 30th of July in 2008 with the symptoms of a heart attack. Had this exact situation happened a week later, she would have been 6% less likely to survive. The University of Liverpool tweeted a photo of a plastic wrapped slice of cheese with the text, this is not a bookmark. I'll use anything as a bookmark and we'll often lose money, important documents, birth certificates, just just things that are popped into a book just for a second. And sometimes it's a nice surprise several years later when I discover the hidden treasures. But never cheese. It's craft singles, so it's probably still good.
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