Post * wYy8 — Curious Curator

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TIL NASA seriously thinks it can build a warp drive soon, now that the physicists have worked out the math. Here’s hoping.

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GY81j TIL until the 1970s, lookism in the United States was sometimes codified into law. In many jurisdictions, so-called "ugly laws" barred people from appearing in public if they had diseases or disfigurements that were considered unsightly

pYO0O TIL humans don't have "wetness" receptors, our mind has to rely on context cues to detect liquids

LkVxp TIL During WWII, thousands of women were forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army. Japan still refused to formally apologize to these women, who are now in their 80s and 90s.

pJmO TIL Congress Passed a Law Preventing Congress From Insider Trading After Public Outrage then Quietly Rolled Back the Rules For Themselves with the President Signing It!

9YwRQ TIL that wild turkey were hunted to extinction in New England by about 1850. The turkey were reintroduced to the region by transplant only in the 1970s.