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TIL about the 'Days of Shame', when in 1934, 75 Montreal physicians went on strike to protest a Jewish doctor that was hired at a Catholic hospital. After 4 days, the Jewish doctor finally resigned because patients weren't getting care.

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6ENJm TIL that an officer was transferred off the Titanic shortly before she sailed. He packed his quarters quickly and accidentally left the ship with a key in his pocket - the key to the crow's nest cabinet where they kept the lookout's binoculars.
b9dwp TIL that ancient Roman food counter (ancient fast-food restaurant) was called thermopolium. The one in Pompeii had this menu: remnants of duck, goat, pig, fish and snails in earthen pots, sometimes combined in the same dish.
kO4mg TIL the Vatican declared wearing bikinis a sin in the 1950s.
wByJ TIL of the “second brain” in humans located in the gastrointestinal tract and called the enteric nervous system. More than 90% of the body’s serotonin lies in the gut, as well as about 50% of the body’s dopamine.
Xxxj TIL that many tech companies stayed away from the use of male computerized voices because of HAL-9000 (from ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’)