Post * kOwr7 — Curious Curator

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TIL J.J. Thomson won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1906 for showing that the electron is a particle. His son, George Paget Thomson, won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1937 for showing that the electron is a wave.

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LkEYP TIL about the English common law known as the doctrine of Ancient Lights, which holds that people can have a reasonable expectation of sunlight; and that when they do, their neighbors ought not to take it away.

GYmg4 TIL that the former owner of Segway died after riding his Segway off a cliff and into a river.

OQBa TIL there was a dutch man born in 1912, Mirin Dajo, who willingly had an actual sword thrust through his body multiple times without organ damage. He was taught this method by Indian mystics and performed it in public.

4kBa TIL that rather than put any items on sale, Louis Vuitton burns all of its unsold bags each year. This is how they keep their product extremely unattainable and upscale; also, 99% of all LV bags you see are fake.

6EGvQ TIL the Albuquerque minor league baseball team changed their name to the Albuquerque Isotopes after the Simpsons episode, “Hungry Hungry Homer” in which Homer prevents the Springfield Isotopes plan to move to Albuquerque with a hunger strike.