› added 6 years ago

57

TIL that NASA's Spirit Mars rover was meant to operate for 92 days. It ended up operating for 2,269 days, after which a dust storm blocked off its solar panels.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

jyOp TIL The United States first space station, Skylab crashed in Australia. The county where it crashed fined NASA $400 for littering. NASA never paid the ticket.
OGL8L TIL of the Sul Ross Desk, an attraction outside the college town of Alpine, Texas that is a teachers desk left abandoned by a group of Sul Ross State students on top of a mountain in 1979.
9w6WX TIL the band Neon Trees took their name from the lit palm trees on the signs at In-N-Out Burger. It was only later learned that bass player Branden Campbell's father installed those same signs
Y7PlW TIL that Canada's Dempster Highway, the only public road to cross the Arctic Circle, once had a 109-mile stretch called Tuktoyaktuk Winter Road. Tuktoyaktuk Winter Road was purely made of ice and could only be operated, especially by large trucks, during the winter as the river below was frozen.
g4ZL TIL the longest static wall sit is 11 hr 51 min and 14 sec. It’s held by Dr.Thienna Ho