Post * PK6J — Curious Curator

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TIL that after banning the 3-finger Hunger Games salute as a symbol by activists opposing the coup that installed the military junta in Thailand in May, anti-coup activists decided to make sandwiches a symbol of protest. The military then arrested students for “possessing sandwiches with ill intent”

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O71Y TIL 3M accidentally created an Invisible Electrostatic Wall (Force Field) strong enough to stop a human from passing through

8a1d8 TIL in 2005 the BBC released a promo advertising new services with a head floating around the countryside. It was pulled after viewers complained it 'made them sick' and was 'demonic'

O9yY TIL that the London Underground has its own implementation of the KERS (Kinetic Energy Recovery System), where the platforms are actually uphill from the surrounding track, so that the Kinetic Energy is turned into Gravitational Potential Energy, and recovered when the train leaves the station.

rL0w TIL after MH-17 was shot down over Ukraine, the Russian government accused a Ukrainian fighter jet. After it was exposed that this type of jet couldn’t reach the required altitude, Wikipedia said there were a flurry of attempts from Russia to edit the jet’s page to say it could fly higher.

ne9yP TIL about the origins of US whistleblower protections. In 1777, 10 soldiers reported their commanding officers for torture. Instead of branding the soldiers as traitors, the Founding Fathers passed a law protecting them and future whistleblowers.