Post * G6p7 — Curious Curator

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TIL Rapper Tupac’s last known words were “fuck you” spoken to police officers trying to gather information on his shooter

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4XAMR TIL Satoru Iwata, former CEO of Nintendo before passing away in 2015, took a 50% pay cut in 2011 and 2014 when he realized that the products released under his watch were selling poorly, helping to avoid cuts down the line.

EMKw TIL The SR-71 had an armed version called the F-12, which carried three Falcon missiles that were capable of mach 4. The aircraft was actually tested and shot down a bomber from nearly 74,000 feet. It was cancelled when Robert McNamara refused to release its funding, and instead spent it on Vietnam.

8egvP TIL there's a Christmas movie titled 'A Message from Mars' that was released in... 1913

p8xZG TIL of Eilmer of Malmesbury. An English monk who, in the 11th century, developed a glider and flew ~200m high. However, a gush of wind crashed him and left him crippled for the rest of his life. He wrote later in life that the reason for the crash was not developing a tail component to the glider.

9YBjG TIL Mongols have an ice fishing technique at Changan Lake that dates back over 2,000 years and is done in temperatures as low as -22C to -30C.