Post * R50V4 — Curious Curator

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TIL that in 2017 a prominent body armor manufacturer worked with a now defunct Airsoft company to create a set of fully functional Mandalorian themed body armor.

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eGoL TIL of “Shifting Baseline Syndrome”, where each generation uses previous reference points as baselines despite those points representing significant changes from even earlier states. Each generation defines the “natural” state differently, and large changes over time often go unnoticed.

ABY4 TIL a Soviet soccer player was so popular that when he was sent to the Siberian gulags during Stalin’s Great Purge in the 1930s, he was treated rather well as the gulag commanders were also his fans, who gave him better quarters and food rations, and was even asked to coach the local teams.

9AeG TIL that most of the walk buttons at NYC intersections serve no purpose. They are “placebo buttons” and do not make a walk signal occur faster. Any benefit from them is only imagined.

91EM TIL that the first functional sewing machine was invented in France in 1830 by Barthelemy Thimonnier, a tailor. The inventor was nearly killed by a group of angry French tailors. They burnt down his garment factory because they feared the invention would render them unemployed.

b64aZ TIL of the Canadian Shield.The Shield makes up roughly 50 per cent of Canada’s land mass, was formed over 3 billion years through processes such as plate tectonics, erosion and glaciation, and contains some of the oldest known rocks on Earth.