Post * grBP8 — Curious Curator

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TIL on average your skin fully regenerates itself every 27 days. So just about every month you have entirely new skin.

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vBB TIL we have the technology to display small holograms very similar to the ones in Star Wars but full-color, although it is not as portable as it is in the movie.

NXPG1 TIL Theodore Maiman made the first laser operate in 1960 by shining a high-power flash lamp on a ruby rod with silver-coated surfaces. He promptly submitted a short report of the work to the journal Physical Review Letters, but the editors turned it down.

RZow TIL There has been an encrypted sculpture called “Kryptos” that is located on the grounds of the CIA headquarters since 1990 and has yet to be fully decrypted.

oBaVW TIL the very first Veterans of Foreign Wars post, VFW Post 1, is located in Denver.

OokpY TIL that 'normalcy' was purely a mathematical term describing 'the condition of being at right angles' before US President Warren G Harding incorrectly used it in his 1920 campaign slogan 'Return to Normalcy'. Since then it has become a substitute for 'normality', mainly used in the United States.