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TIL - Native Americans regarded homosexuals with high respect

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grovW TIL that Fukushi Masaichi (30 January 1878 – 3 June 1956) was a Japanese physician and pathologist in Tokyo. He was the founder of the world's only known collection of tattoos taken from the dead. He collected an archive of about 2000 "hides", which were later lost during World War II.
xVJEk TIL San Francisco had a bubonic plague epidemic in 1900-04, but the governor ignored medical experts and denied that it existed, because he feared its impact on businesses
ADrAo TIL of the feedback sandwich, the recommended method for managers to give negative feedback, by sandwiching the negative remark between two positive ones
D56r TIL one of Hitler’s personal chauffeurs and close friends was found to be Jewish and was targeted for expulsion from the SS by Heinrich Himmler. Upon hearing that Maurice was of Jewish descent Hitler made an exception for Maurice and his brothers calling them “honorary Aryans.”
6Eb8l TIL a 2011 study found that playing the vuvuzela in a crowded event was an incredibly efficient way to spread a respiratory virus, over 100 times more than shouting.