Post * Medga — Curious Curator

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TIL that the only people who banned Christmas in America, were Christians.

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R74Q9 Today I learned 83% of Psychiatry Providers listed as In-Network with an Insurance Company, either don't exist or aren't accepting new patients, a term described as "Ghost Networks"

oRN9o Today I learned that Toyota, car company, started in the apparel industry of making silk-weaving looms

oQWR TIL that before he ever wrote a feature film, Mel Brooks made an animated short where he improvised the voice of an old Jewish man forced to sit through an art house film. That short was called The Critic and it won him an Oscar.

78VYP TIL: each 13.5 inch Oscar statue is plated with 1.5 times as much gold as the 21+ foot James Webb Space Telescope mirrors

6n4Q TIL that in 1970 the US Postal Service decided on a strike after a Congressional decision to raise the wages of postal workers by only 4%, at the same time as Congress raised its own pay by 41%