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WCDT strips 4081-4085 (2nd-6th September 2019)
Tyr:
Fun fact: Two students at Northumbria university were accidentally dosed with twice the LD50 for caffeine for their body weight because of a misplaced decimal. they were supposed to get 3 cups of coffee worth of caffeine. they got 300.
jwhouk:
--- Quote from: Tyr on 03 Sep 2019, 00:20 ---Fun fact: Two students at Northumbria university were accidentally dosed with twice the LD50 for caffeine for their body weight because of a misplaced decimal. they were supposed to get 3 cups of coffee worth of caffeine. they got 300.
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When was their funeral?
andrybak:
Both students fully recovered, it seems. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-38744307
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: andrybak on 03 Sep 2019, 05:20 ---Both students fully recovered, it seems. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-38744307
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That's good.
Here's hoping neither suffer from any adverse effects beyond a fear response to coffee.
Wingy:
--- Quote from: Tyr on 03 Sep 2019, 00:20 ---Fun fact: Two students at Northumbria university were accidentally dosed with twice the LD50 for caffeine for their body weight because of a misplaced decimal. they were supposed to get 3 cups of coffee worth of caffeine. they got 300.
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For those who don't know, an LD50 dose has a 50% chance of being deadly, as in Lethal Dose 50% of the time.
The human physiology responds variably to caffeine and there is some evidence that introverts are less affected than extroverts, which would make introversion a genetic trait, not an acquired one. Speaking as someone not much effected by caffeine and somewhat introverted, I'm happy and not surprised the two university (perhaps more introverted and therefore less effected by caffeine) students survived.
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