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Today I learned barbers and surgeons went their separate ways in 1745

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QJPD6 TIL that Franklin D. Roosevelt's disability was largely unknown to the public. He was diagnosed with polio and was mostly paralyzed from the waist down. When photographers tried to catch him in his wheelchair, Secret Service agents reportedly tore the film out of their cameras.
0GRv TIL that the official name for the colour of the universe is “cosmic latté” & it is a beige colour. other suggestions were skyvory, big bang beige & primordial clam chowder.
vPegK TIL When (Anheuser-Busch chairman) Gussie Busch purchased the St. Louis Cardinals, he attempted to name their ballpark "Budweiser Stadium" and was denied due to baseball's alcohol advertising rules. In response, he named it "Busch Stadium" and launched the first Busch branded beer two years later.
VXmZ TIL Tom Hanks took the same basic salary rate on Toy Story, $50,000, despite making $70 million on Forrest Gump the previous year.
8e7Xa TIL the first woman elected to the british westminster parliament was the Irish Republican leader Countess Markievicz