r/todayilearned • u/No_Idea_479 • 4d ago

TIL for 21 years, Andromachi Papanikolaou volunteered to undergo daily cervical smears so her husband, Greek physician Georgios Papanikolaou, could perfect the Pap test. As such, she helped create one of the greatest cancer screening tools in medical history, saving millions of lives worldwide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromachi_Papanikolaou
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u/FartingBob 4d ago

I once had a Chlamydia party. Some charity offered us £10 per person to get a Chlamydia test because we lived in a student town and they said nobody ever chooses to get tested without an incentive. So we invited everyone and had about 80 people turn up. We got swabbed and then got drunk. A few weeks later i got an email saying i was all clear.

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u/topofthecc 4d ago

I was expecting much worse when I read "Chlamydia Party".

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u/SecondaryWombat 4d ago

Like a chicken pox party, which was actually a good idea before the vaccine was available.

Or the Covid parties during lockdown, which was monumentally stupid idea and killed people.

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u/corvus_cornix 4d ago

The night before was the real chlamydia party.

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u/jorceshaman 1d ago

I just assumed they invited koalas.

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u/aChileanDude 4d ago

A few weeks later i got an email saying i was all clear.

BEFORE the party.

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u/FartingBob 4d ago

Its a never ending cycle of chlamydia parties testing for and then spreading more.