Post * 5YpdD — Curious Curator

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TIL NASA has a date of October 2024 for the first woman landing on the moon, as well as the first person on the moon in 52 years. The mission is called Artemis III, after Apollo's twin sister.

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9WPX TIL Gordon Ramsay left one of his first jobs while as an aspiring chef because he was tired of “the rages the bullying and violence” perpetrated by the head chef

mxBRY TIL Although all official records state 343 fire fighters died on 9/11. There was a 344th, Keith Roma, who saved 200 people, climbing tower 1 four times. He was NYFP (Fire patrol) so the FDNY don't list him on the list of dead even though they promised they would.

j6omv TIL that "Zoozve", an asteroid and quasi-moon of Venus, is named for a typo on a children's poster when the artist misread the object's provisional designation "2002VE" as "ZOOZVE". A podcast host noticed it on his son's poster, asked the discoverer to submit the name to the IAU, which accepted it.

wL9g1 TIL that Vlad Dracula was called Vlad the Impaler because when his country was invaded by Ottomans, he had hundreds of soldiers impaled by putting stakes through their rectum in a way that missed their vital organs and kept them living and writhing for days to make an example for incoming invaders

nW45B TIL there was a guy who was suspected to be Jack the Ripper, because his last words before he was hanged for an unrelated crime was ""I am Jack The...", but a modern biographer suggest that he might have been saying "I am ejaculating"