Post * loPlN — Curious Curator

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TIL Arizona granted women the right to vote 8 years before the women’s suffrage movement.

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LrQp TIL during the Challenger search and recovery, sailors found a floating duffle bag full of cocaine, worth $13 MIL - enough to the pay for the Navy’s search and recovery efforts. [pdf]

Opj7 TIL that the WWI Native American code talkers lacked words for modern-day military terms. They used “big gun” for artillery, “little gun shoot fast” for machine gun, “stone” for grenade and “scalps” for casualties, etc.

rwDy TIL that the terms “Panic Attack” and “Anxiety Attack” are not the same thing, but are both still used interchangeably.

VM8Yp TIL researchers asked four people to do random acts of kindness for others. Not only did it improve their own mood, but caused those strangers to be kinder to other people too. There is a ripple effect to kindness.

QNd1e TIL that Cora Agnes Benneson, one of the first female lawyers in New England, was rejected by Harvard Law School because "the equipments were too limited to make suitable provision for receiving women".