Post * Bx8r — Curious Curator

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TIL that, until the 1980s, physicians routinely operated on infants without anesthetic - administering only muscle relaxants to prevent motion - under the belief that infants could not feel pain

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loBrA TIL that before WWI Kaiser Wilhelm tried to impress Queen Wilhelmina of Holland by telling her "My guards are seven feet tall and yours are only shoulder-high to them." her reply was, "Quite true, Your Majesty, your guards are seven feet tall. But when we open our dikes, the water is ten feet deep!"

b6kr0 TIL China invented modern electronic cigarette, while they were victims of imported opium two centuries ago

xVVk TIL Californians don’t pay sales tax on fast food if they utter the magic words “To Go”.

KYy94 TIL in 2014 there was a 7,500 player battle in EVE Online, with thousands of ships being destroyed and an estimated $300,000 of real world money being lost in the conflict.

GYYk1 TIL outdoor cats are the #1 threat to bird populations. They have contributed to the extinction of 33 bird populations and are responsible for roughly 2.4 billion in bird losses per year.