Post * abKJ — Curious Curator

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TIL there is an RC car that returns Javelins to the Olympic athletes. Here’s the video from London 2012.

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mxdwE TIL Flo-Jo's world record in the 200 meters from 1988 somehow still stands. No woman has run that distance faster in over 30 years.

W7RyX TIL that Bram Stoker’s widow Florence had the 1921 film Nosferatu declared a copyright infringement. She sued the production company into bankruptcy, ordered all copies burned, and had the court declare that owning a copy was illegal. The resulting cult status led to several copies surviving.

NA66 TIL that, differently from animals, there’s no known general and reliable tranquilizer for humans, meaning that tranquilizer guns in movies are likely to either kill the target or be ineffective.

yLap TIL a single “panini” is actually called a panino. Only multiple sandwiches are panini.

NEY1 TIL the stock market got the names “bear and bull” because of caballeros in California. The caballeros put California grizzlies in battle with bulls. They observed bears swiped downward and bulls hooked upward, thus lending the analogy. This also helped lead to the California grizzly’s extinction.