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

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QNZOp TIL that "hello" is a relatively new word. The first time we have it in writing is 1826
Br0Vx TIL Indiana was the last state to allow Coors to be sold owing to exclusive distributorship rules.
6OM8 TIL the city of Dallas, Texas has lost every single one of 82 court cases against the same man, Robert Groden, over several decades.
oB6Q8 TIL about Asset Framing. Asset-Framing is a narrative model that defines people by their assets and aspirations before noting the challenges and deficits.
PYnrg TIL that the first thing that was ever bought and sold over the internet was weed. In 1971 or 1972, Stanford students using Arpanet accounts at Stanford's AI Laboratory engaged in a commercial transaction with their counterparts at MIT, and thus the first act of e-commerce was a pot deal.