Post * MXka — Curious Curator

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TIL There is a table-saw that will halt immediately if touched by human flesh.

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W7VA4 TIL that 440 nuclear reactors provide 10% of the worlds total electricity.

gaDD TIL that the United States Appeals court ruled that competitive cheerleading is not a sport

gkM8 TIL Lord Timothy Dexter, late 1700s American businessman, faked his own death, but after attending his own funeral and not seeing his wife cry, revealed himself and caned her for not grieving hard enough

VB7OZ TIL of the red flag act enacted in the late 19th century where every vehicle had to be led by a person on foot carrying a red flag to warn bystanders of the vehicle’s approach

xww TIL- That a famine in Ethiopia from 1983-1985 killed around 400,000-1,000,000 people and that 56,000 tons of food donated by aid efforts from the West through Live Aid was left to rot in a port by the Ethiopian government.