› added 3 months ago

26

TIL that space has a distinct smell and in 2008, NASA hired a chemist to recreate that scent for training astronauts.

Read more space.com

via reddit.com

4Xww TIL that the United States’ only native parrot species, the Carolina Parakeet, went extinct in 1918 because they were deemed as pests by farmers and as lovely decorations for ladies’ hats.
RMDj TIL in 1956 Soviets proposed a joint project to build a dam across Bering Strait in order to warm the Arctic Ocean but it wasn’t found practicable by the US
8aKEX Today I learned that the First Federal Congress of the United States met on March 4, 1789. Its first official act was to adjourn the meeting for failure to achieve a quorum. It would first achieve a quorum on April 1, 1789.
yQ6Oa TIL Africa is an unincorporated community in Ohio, is named after the Underground Railroad and is thought to be the only town in the world named after the Underground Railroad.
9Yy87 TIL comedian Stewart Lee frequently stole material from his partner Richard Herring.