Post * KYJDR — Curious Curator

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TIL that the longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.

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eMMk TIL Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for president in 1872, against Ulysses S. Grant.

rZxM TIL that after the Columbine High School massacre, Marilyn Manson trademarked his stage name so he could issue cease and desist orders to silence media who were wrongly blaming him for inspiring the killers

vPE7 TIL that in 2001, Coca Cola had a program called H2NO, which worked with waiters at Olive Garden to dissuade people from ordering tap water.

4k6a5 TIL Alice Hamilton was the first woman appointed to the Harvard University faculty in any field. During her years at Harvard (1919-1935), she never received a faculty promotion. She was excluded from social activities, could not enter the Harvard Union, or attend the Faculty Club.

loBxa TIL the last man to walk on the moon wrote his daughter's initials in the moon dust. When the shuttle program later began, he chose to leave NASA, saying: "Once you've gone to the moon, staying home just isn't good enough."