Post * 78EoP — Curious Curator

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TIL that needle-free 'virtually painless' injections are possible through laser technology.

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KOQ8Q TIL: The speed of light isn't there for light, it's there because of causality. If something moved faster causality would break and observers would see effect before cause.

v5kB TIL that in 1834 Mormon leader Joseph Smith desecrated an Indian grave mound and declared the bones were from Zelph a White Indian who worked for the great Prophet Onandagus. Smith and his buddies divided up the bones and they are now lost.

vkV8 TIL that starting in 1910, a series of books were published featuring a fictional boy-inventor by the name of Tom Swift. One of these books was titled “Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle.” Many years later, this led to the naming of the TASER that police now carry: “Tom A. Swift Electric Rifle”

N7Xde TIL that Russian dolls aren't even really Russian and were imported from Asia in the 19th century

OGnwg TIL: The word "filibuster" was borrowed in the 1850s from a Spanish word meaning "lawless plunderer." It applied to private military adventurers from the U.S. who were attacking and pillaging Spanish colonies in Central America.