💬 Quoted: “There was an uncomfortable silence in the room, because we knew what we had just discovered.”

• Ancient Egyptians were the first known human culture to explore the idea of treating cancer with surgical operations, according to a new study that examined a pair of 2,000+-year-old skulls with cancerous tumors. After performing a microscopic analysis of the ancient bones, scientists discovered cut marks made by a sharp, metal instrument in the areas around the tumors, indicating a surgical operation had taken place. Researchers say they can’t determine whether the surgery, the oldest related to cancer to date, was aimed at actively treating the disease or performed as part of an autopsy – but either way, it marks a “milestone in the history of medicine.”

⚾ Stat of the Day: For the first time in over a century, Ty Cobb is no longer the first name atop the MLB’s career batting average leaderboard. In a change officially enacted yesterday, the MLB updated its record books to include 2,300+ players' Negro League statistics from 1920-1948, propelling slugger Josh Gibson (.372) ahead of Cobb (.367). Gibson also became the career leader in slugging percentage (.718) and OPS (1.177), moving ahead of Babe Ruth (.690 and 1.164, respectively). Fun fact: many who watched Gibson play said that if the world had been different, they would have called Ruth the white Josh Gibson.

🤔 Did You Know? Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) didn’t become an officially accepted medical diagnosis until 1980.

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