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TIL calling yourself “doctor” if you don’t hold a PhD earned in Germany is a criminal offence

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lRPA TIL- People who are owned by cats are 40% less likely to die of a heart attack.
Wk4M8 TIL proslavery literature was written after the publication of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' like the parody 'Aunt Phillis's Cabin' which states: "slaves are comfortable and contented, and their owners humane and kind"
m1GbM TIL there used to be a $5000 dollar bill, and if you had one you could get around $300K for it.
Br0OL TIL Mr & Mrs Crompton and their six children were the largest family to die in the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915. Travelling first class to England, they were known as being noisy during the voyage, even causing one woman to switch rooms because of it.
VMdN8 TIL that in 1964, Robert Peabody was exposed to 7 Sieverts/10K rads of radiation after confusing his chemicals, adding uranium solution instead of trichloroethane to his Uranium-235 mixture. He died 49 hours later.