Post * 8aj4V — Curious Curator

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TIL that Reuters routinely fact checks headlines from social media and debunks false claims with openly available news sources.

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4XE8X TIL that "rogue waves" or "freak waves," unexpected and massive waves that sailors have long told stories about, were generally considered to be mythical until confirmed by scientific instrumentation in 1995

Av5a TIL that there is a Scottish tartan designed for Mars exploration

j6Kna TIL that The first animals to orbit the moon were two Russian tortoises inside Zond 5 spacecraft, The tortoises not only survived the journey, but returned to the Earth alive . On 21 September 1968, six days after the launch, Zond 5 was retrieved from the Indian Ocean.

v1Va4 TIL of Alexandra David-Néel, an explorer who snuck into Tibet in the 1920s to learn about Buddhism when it was closed to outsiders. She lived until 101 and her writings influenced Jack Kerouac amongst others.

a88rb TIL that the name Obi Wan Kenobi is an homage to samurai. The word Obi is the sash belt for a kimono, ken the word for sword, and wan which sounds like the character san.