Post * bGB4 — Curious Curator

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TIL the Ancient Greeks had a rudimentary railway c.600B.C

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6EX1Y TIL Congress passed a law in 1973 that mandated safety features to prevent a car from starting unless the driver buckled their seatbelt; the technology was mostly effective, but was so unpopular with voters that Congress was pressured to repeal the law just one year later in 1974

R7vK6 TIL No two samples of human ashes will be precisely the same in terms of elemental composition

YpoVW TIL Egyptians' sun god Khepri was scarab-faced because they believed that in the same way as the beetle pushes large balls of dung along the ground, Khepri moved the newly-born sun across the sky

xKxg TIL, after the American Revolution from the British, in 1777, Morocco was the first country to recognize the United States of America. The treaty is still in force, constituting the longest unbroken treaty in U.S. history.

MeXJa TIL that the term "Sushi-grade" is a marketing term which means little to nothing about safety or the quality of the fish. In fact, previously frozen fish is often safer than fresh fish to eat raw due to parasitic destruction during the freezing process.