Post * e0BLL — Curious Curator

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TIL that on Apollo 15, a hammer and a feather were dropped on the surface of the moon to illustrate how objects of different weight fall at an equal rate without air resistance.

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epx0k TIL a common trope of early vernacular Chinese novels was "(A) lone Tibetan monk with his potent aphrodisiacs and retractable penis"

jJ7Q TIL that aerial dogfights used to be pilots shooting at each other with pistols and throwing bricks

kOYbd TIL There is an infantry style rocket launcher that carries a nuclear payload called the "Davey Crockett"

XEG4X TIL the sea like sound you hear when you put a seashell near your ear is the echo the noise in the environment BUT ALSO the sound of the blood flowing in your ears and the muscles acting in your ears

0wlpy TIL that American surgeon William Beaumont, the "Father of Gastric Physiology", researched human digestion by putting pieces of food on a string and poking them through an old gunshot wound in his handyman's stomach. He pulled it out on regular intervals to check on how well it had been digested.