Post * 7ylM — Curious Curator

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TIL Electricity was introduced to Ethiopia in 1896 after Emperor Menelik II ordered two newly invented electric chairs as a form of humane capital punishment and realized they were useless in his country without electricity

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PNWO TIL that the Z in Dragon Ball Z was chosen because Z is the last letter of the alphabet and Akira Toriyama wanted to finish the series because he was running out of ideas

XERBj TIL during the winter, people spend more time indoors with the windows sealed, so they are more likely to breathe the same air as someone who has the flu and thus contract the virus.Days are shorter during the winter, and lack of sunlight leads to low levels of vitamin D decreasing immunity to virus

BrYwb TIL that in 1978 Sigmund Jähn, an East German Air Force pilot, was the first German in space. He joined the crew of Soyuz 31 on a manned space mission to the Soviet space station Salyut 6. Sigmund died on Sept. 21, 2019, at age 82.

OGLje TIL that in 1982, the members of the punk rock band Misfits were arrested in New Orleans because of grave robbing while attempting to locate the grave of voodoo practitioner Marie Laveau, but bailed themselves out of jail and skipped their court date to drive to their next performance in Florida.

PYewJ TIL Lincoln originally invited Ulysses S. Grant and his wife to the Ford Theater. Grant accepted, but later backed out because their wives' hated each other. If Grant had gone, his security detail would likely have prevented Lincoln's assassination.