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In 1994, Gloria Ramirez, known as the Toxic Lady, was rushed to a California ER. A nurse fainted, a doctor got liver damage, one person ended up in intensive care. In total, 23 staff got sick. No cause was ever confirmed... Ramirez was a 31-year-old woman with late-stage cervical cancer, when she was rushed into the emergency room at Riverside General Hospital in California. Medical staff observed an oily sheen on her skin and a garlic-like odor emanating from her mouth. When drawing her blood, a nurse noticed crystalline particles floating in the syringe. Shortly after, one by one, hospital workers began to fall ill. A total of 23 staff members suffered symptoms, fainting, shortness of breath, muscle spasms, while five required hospitalization, and one spent weeks in intensive care. Gloria Ramirez herself died from her cancer-related complications. An investigation by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory proposed that Gloria may have been using dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) as a home pain remedy. In the oxygen-rich environment of the ER, and possibly under the influence of defibrillation, chemists theorized it could have converted into dimethyl sulfate, a highly toxic compound. Though plausible, and the most detailed scientific explanation to date, this theory remains unproven; no external toxins were definitively detected. Alternative explanations include mass sociogenic illness, or “mass hysteria,” possibly triggered by the strange odor. Yet this theory is hard to reconcile with the tangible findings: the odor, the sheen, the blood crystals, and the most severely affected staff member’s prolonged health issues. Ultimately, the incident remains one of medicine’s strangest and most debated mysteries. © Reddit #archaeohistories

The Maldive 1000 Rufiyaa note has the striped pattern of the skin of whale sharks and green turtle underprint twitter.com/froggyups/stat…

Bucket List Travel: The Top 20 Places In The World, According To A New Report forbes.com/sites/laurabeg…

Island-hopping offers the chance to go wherever the winds take you: meet local people, commune with tropical fish, sip a bottle of rum on a desert island on.natgeo.com/46pQKL2

The Muraka was the Maldives, and the world's, very first underwater hotel suite [read more: buff.ly/3Otskcu]

The most manual thing ever

One year ago #Today, the James Webb Space Telescope was launched [video: buff.ly/3hLj5bj] [art by Ben Alp, van Gogh's Starry Night with the first image from JWST: buff.ly/3vlh6xe]

10 Places you need to visit immediately: 1. Maldives

Messi's fan kids from Maldives 🇦🇷⚽️🇲🇻 wishes goodluck for tonights match with Maldivian Style. @goal @FIFAcom @433 @brfootball @TeamMessi @Mausoom_Maus @ftblofficial #footballunitestheworld #fifa #maldives #messi #argentinavspoland #fifaworldcup2022 #footballgames #TrendingNow

This is embarrasing. These practices have to end.

'Devastating.' An alarming report shows coral bleaching has affected 91% of the the Great Barrier Reef: buff.ly/38gv0cr One of the seven wonder's of the nature world is being destroyed before our eyes. We must #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #renewables #GreenNewDeal

Tokelau is an island country and dependent territory of New Zealand in the southern Pacific Ocean and it's the first 100% solar powered nation in the world. However, when it is overcast outside, the islands run on generators powered by coconut oil bit.ly/2nURODV

Food waste moodhah elhun gaanoonun manaakameh. V.Alimatha adhi V.Dhiggiri resort in moodhah mihaaru ves kuni alhamun dhaathy mi massala balaa dhinun edhen ⁦@MoTmv⁩ ⁦@Mausoom_Maus⁩ ⁦@EPAMaldives⁩ ⁦@EnvironmentMv⁩ ⁦@anuahsa⁩ ⁦@presidencymv⁩ ⁦

The rose-veiled fairy wrasse, everyone—a fish that by any other name would be just as beautiful. 🌹 This new-to-science species from the Maldives is brought to you by @CoralReefFish, @FishGuyKai, @FishMcFishyface, & @MMRI_Maldives biologist Ahmed Najeeb: bit.ly/3hVJXBO

Celebration of Peace, 2020 by Betty Acquah, Ghanaian artist #WomensArt #FridayFeeling

@ShimhaShakyb 😍

Villingili 2/6 #watercolorpainting

Research indicates the whole universe could be a giant neural network (story by @mrgreene1977) tnw.to/aVD6G

How a centuries-old tradition in the Maldives could safeguard tuna for the future | CNN Travel cnn.com/travel/article…

I can’t believe we’re not talking about this more, but I think it’s great that we’re finally testing Armageddon’s hypothesis of whether it’s easier to train astronauts to drill or drillers to astronaut.

@ShimhaShakyb Wow 😍😍

Really enjoyed painting this work #watercolorpainting