Post * QJAKa — Curious Curator

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TIL the "Doctor" title was appropriated by physicians, who took it FROM academia. History has dictated the use of the courtesy title Dr by physicians and general practitioners. However, surgeons do not use the title of Dr and, due to the origins of surgery with the barber surgeons.

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4X5AX TIL that comedian Fred Armisen's parents were born in Venezuela and in Germany. His grandfather though was Korean who adopted a Japanese name after the Kantō massacre of Koreans in 1923. He became a dancer, and while working for Nazi Germany during WW2, was a spy for the Empire of Japan in Europe

EgYoW TIL: Under the Federal Housing Act (FHA) in the US, it is possible for people with disabilities to terminate a lease if the place of living is making their condition worse and there are no other reasonable accommodations to be made.

aowA TIL the US military once tried to build a radar detector-detector-detector detector in order to detect radar detector-detector-detectors, whose main purpose is to detect a radar detector detector, which were built to alert police to someone using an illegal radar detector

RX1j TIL when General Napier was asked to respect the Indian custom of burning widows on their husband’s funeral pyre, he replied it was English custom to hang murderers.

KOOdB TIL that due to a blaze that happened in Brazil in 1974, the LA Fire Code was change to make it mandatory to have a rooftop helicopter pad on all buildings over 120 feet, to be used as a means to escape a structure fire.