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TIL that the barber pole became the universal symbol for barbers as it resembles the bloody bandages of “barber-surgeons” of the past, who practiced bloodletting.

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WkJdd TIL of Hessy Levinsons Taft who had her picture submitted into a contest to find the "most beautiful Aryan baby." She won. What the Judge, Joseph Goebbels, didnt know was that Hessy was a Jew and the photographer had entered the picture because he "wanted to make the Nazis (look) ridiculous."
XKdr TIL the FBI kept a file on Louis Armstrong for his outspokenness about integration.
P15an TIL twenty six people have died from chiropractic spinal manipulation.
G8bG TIL the 1945 Food and Nutrition Board Paper often quoted statement “humans require roughly 2.5 liters (8 glasses) per day” is only ½ of the full statement. The other half was “we get most of the fluid we need from food and other beverages.”
obmR TIL Tampa Bay police were called to Tampa-area Walmarts nearly 17,000 times in a calendar year