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epWKb TIL: In 1993, a Russian lunar rover (Lunokhod 2) that has been on the moon since 1973, was sold to Richard Garriott for $68,500
4XPMJ TIL The first scientist named in history was En Hedu’anna, the chief astronomer-priestess of Ur. She lived around 2300 BC, the only daughter of the great empire architect Sargon of Akkad, and called the Shakespeare of the ancient world as her works were studied for 500 years or more after her death.