Taser what does it stand for

Although the idea for radar had been around since at least the s , it wasn't until the buildup to World War II that the technology was perfected. The word was coined in by Christian Lambertsen, an American scientist who designed a form of the underwater-breathing technology in the s. The colorful expression meaning a chaotic or messy situation first arose in the s as US military jargon. Snafu stands for "Situation Normal: All Fed Up," although the profanity-averse sometimes change it to "fouled up.

ZIP Codes aren't just named that way because they help our mail get delivered faster. It actually stands for something — Zone Improvement Plan. The postal service adopted his idea in , but not before adding two more digits to make the five-digit ZIP Codes we recognize today.

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