Post * 4Bga — Curious Curator

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TIL - Honda does not want to make a V8 engine. One dealer complained enough to where American Honda actually sent them a shipment of V8’s………… tomato juice.

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LkWA9 TIL of "Complex PTSD". Typical PTSD happens after a single incident like a car crash, but C-PTSD results from prolonged trauma, like childhood abuse or neglect. It's harder to spot & to treat. Victims have issues with trust, boundaries, and sense of self... and they often get revictimized.

59WB TIL Brazil gets 85% of it’s energy from renewable sources

e0614 TIL the band DEVO's name comes from the concept of DE-eVOlution; the idea that humanity has begun to regress to a more primitive herd-like mentality and become more dysfunctional.

GYANQ Dumping all our nuclear waste in a volcano does seem like a neat solution for destroying the roughly 29,000 tons of spent uranium fuel rods stockpiled around the world. But there's a critical standard that a volcano would have to meet to properly dispose of the stuff, explains Charlotte Rowe, a volcano geophysicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. And that standard is heat. The lava would have to not only melt the fuel rods but also strip the uranium of its radioactivity.

Q8bp TIL that a US soldier at Bagram prison camp in Afghanistan was nicknamed “Monster” and “King of Torture” and was reported to torture prisoners including poking bound prisoners in the face with his penis and threatening them with sexual assault. He was put on trial and acquitted of all charges.