Post * KOdx6 — Curious Curator

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TIL Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to go into space. In 1963, she spent almost three days in space and orbited Earth 48 times in her space capsule, Vostok 6.

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mxVoY TIL about James Reavis, also known as "The Baron of Arizona," who almost swindled the U.S. government out of the entirety of Arizona. He forged numerous papers in Spain, Mexico, and the U.S. to prove that he "inherited" the land from a fictional family

wLMO7 TIL: In the 2004 Afghan election, the government instructed illiterate voters to draw an icon for their candidate, but both progressives and traditionalists were represented by drawing a book. One was meant to represent secular education, the other the Quran.

PZ9Z TIL 1 in every 20,000 girls are born with their rectum, vagina, and urinary tract fused together into a a single common channel, called a persistent cloaca.

0wD8j TIL The actor who played "Flounder" in Animal House, Stephen Furst, was a pizza delivery boy in Hollywood when he landed the role. He taped a photo of himself inside the lid of each pizza he delivered in the hopes of being discovered.

dNp7 TIL The simple act of a surgical team stopping to answer a set of 19 questions such as “Do we have the right patient?” and “What operation are we performing?” has been proven to reduce deaths by more than 40% and complications by one third.