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TIL: No one is 100% sure where the first white coat came into the picture or who exactly designed it, but it is clear that the white coat became synonymous with portraying the doctor as a clean, safe source of authority in the new-and-improved medical field and that image has never really left.

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rR4Ow TIL Cyril of Alexandria claimed that “camel” is a Greek misspelling in the phrase “it’s easier for a camel to thread the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter heaven.” He claimed camel was actually “kamilos,” meaning rope.
rRwyy TIL - When Icelandic people are born they do not take the same last name of their parents. Instead they take their fathers first name and add "son" (son) if you are a boy, or "dottir" (daughter) if you are a girl, to create their last name.
e4wL TIL: There’s a sports team in Liberal, KS named the Liberal Bee Jays. A semi-professional baseball team, they have won five national championships and 13 state championships. The Bee Jays have been coached by three major league managers and have sent 165 players to the major leagues.
8a0nK TIL American architect Henry Murphy was in charge of designing the capital of China in 1928. Murphy proposed a master plan for Nanjing at the heart of which lay an axis with the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, along with ‘Capitol Hill’ and a pagoda
4alw TIL Sperm whales only have one blow hole which evolved from the left nostril. The right nostril is located inside the front of the whale’s head and has evolved into a pair of lips used for echolocation.