Post * 69pVQ — Curious Curator

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TIL that Bob Ross spent 20 years in the US Air Force, was a Drill Sergeant and rose to the rank of First Sergeant

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1vaW TIL it only takes a gallon of fuel to move 1 ton of material 500 miles by rail.

OWv1 TIL that in Crystal Palace Park, London, are the oldest-known dinosaur sculptures, based entirely off fossil findings discovered in the 1850’s. They are very inaccurate.

KO4XQ TIL that the theory of gravitationally-assisted space travel - which enabled NASA’s Voyager and other missions to explore the solar system - was invented by a summer intern at JPL in 1961. He and his revolutionary idea were initially ignored, and he was not offered a job at JPL or NASA.

P1r4n TIL that in the 18th century, an experiment was conducted to determine the mass of the Earth using the effects of a mountain's gravitational pull on a pendulum. The results were less than 20% off the real value.

ANxXB TIL: Eugene Bullard (1895–1961) was the first Black combat pilot, serving in the French Air Service during WWI. An American expatriate, he later became a jazz musician, boxer, and club owner in Paris after escaping Jim Crowe. He used his status in Parisian high society to spy on the Nazis.