Post * vyv8 — Curious Curator

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TIL that the US only lets in 65,000 immigrants eligible for the H-1B visa, a visa for educated immigrants, a year, and that they can only stay for three years, extendable to six years.

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epE5L TIL that some Paralympic fencers have FUCKING SWORDS FOR ARMS. How cool is that?!

Y6nG TIL the Italian verb asolare means to pass time in a meaningless but delightful way

5Yo9P TIL before the Curse of the Bambino was reversed, they placed a Boston cap atop Mt. Everest and burning a Yankees cap at its base camp; hired a professional exorcists Father Guido Sarducci to purify Fenway Park; and spray painting a reverse curve street sign on Storrow Drive with "Reverse the Curse"

EgYjx TIL actor John Lithgow’s childhood babysitter was Coretta Scott, the future future civil rights activist and wife of Martin Luther King.

0waaR TIL that the first surgery was practiced around 3000BC and it was called trephining. It involved putting a hole in someone’s head, and some theorize that is was used to rid the body of evil spirits. This surgery was in use through Medieval times and the renaissance.