Post * 9Yvbm — Curious Curator

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TIL a fertility doctor used his own sperm to father 48 children.

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rNwMW TIL because of its slow rotation one "day" on mercury equals 59 earth days. It orbits the Sun in a 3:2 spin–orbit resonance, rotating on its axis exactly three times for every two revolutions around the Sun meaning a day lasts twice as long as its year.

awVxL TIL a seed that was found in 32,000 year old permafrost germinated

ZE8a TIL that in the ‘90s a batch of pencils by the Bureau for At-Risk-Youth with the slogan “Too Cool To Do Drugs” were recalled for saying “Cool to Do Drugs” and “Do Drugs” as they were sharpened.

lYy5 TIL that in 1997 The Hill reported that Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee asked NASA officials whether the Mars Pathfinder photographed the U.S. flag that Neil Armstrong had planted on Mars. Her chief of staff wrote a letter to the editor telling them it was racist for them to point out her error.

woOJ7 TIL: In 1947, after the Italian bomber corps was disbanded post-WWII, some planes of ambiguous purpose were transferred, pending status clarity, to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, the sovereign successors of the Knights Hospitaller of Crusader fame. The planes were later returned to Italy.