Post * N7XlM — Curious Curator

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TIL that the Chinese use drones equipped with flame-throwers to fight trash stuck in power lines.

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xVbEB TIL that there is a litigation defense strategy used by authors when defaming people dubbed ‘the small penis rule’. The author, when describing a character, will add that they have a small penis, assuming that nobody would sue them for libel and admit to having a small penis.

WkQBL TIL Researchers at Cornell analyzing Youtube videos of heavy metal concerts found that mosh pits model the behavior of gas particles in equilibrium.

P1Ejg TIL The band 2 Live Crew has a cover of Pretty Woman and was sued by Roy Orbison for copyright infringement. 2 Live Crew sent the lyrics to Orbison's label asking permission, which was denied, but they recorded the song anyway. The case went to the supreme court where 2 Live Crew won.

YprgZ TIL That the US Army tradition of naming helicopters after Native American Tribes (something that was once an official regulation) dates to 1947 and General Hamilton Howze who felt that helicopters were meant to attack the flank and fade away...in the tradition of the Plains Indian tribes.

xV0v5 TIL that in the early days of rock and roll, country music was often non-derisively referred to as "hillbilly" music. After country artists incorporated rock techniques into their own style, they created a new combination of rock and hillbilly that came to be called Rockabilly.