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TIL that in medieval times, surgery was considered too menial a task for physicians to perform; it was instead delegated to barbers.

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nWlAr TIL about Raoul Whitfield, one of the earliest American hardboiled detective fiction writers. Close friends with Dashiell Hammett, he was briefly married to New York socialite Emily Davies Vanderbilt Thayer and created the character Jo Gar, a Spanish-Filipino detective in Manila.
l7P7B TIL about the northernmost indigenous people in the world, Greenland's Inughuit. Isolated hundreds of miles away from even from their fellow Inuit, they developed a highly specialized culture that allowed them to live in the high arctic. They only constitute 1% of Greenland's modern population.
l6JB TIL the phrase ‘Politically Correct’ was coined by Mao Zedong.
6E4G8 TIL The Allies considered bombing Auschwitz in an effort to stop operations at the concentration camp.
E1r8W TIL I learned that a lawyer once tried to bring a tic-tac-toe playing chicken into court to prove that being able to play tic-tac-toe did not prove you were mentally competent to understand the consequences of your actions or why you were being executed for them