Post * NXg8b — Curious Curator

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TIL: After traveling more than 1 billion miles, a Japanese spacecraft brought 1,500 grains from an asteroid back to Earth in 2010. It was the first time samples from an asteroid had been brought back to Earth.

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94V7 TIL that a man escaped from slavery, by not running away, but by mailing himself through the post office to a free state

woyxM TIL That Queen guitarist Brian May helped NASA land the Mars Rover aswell as guide them towards an asteroid

XEyVP TIL that the Black Spartans of Dahomey were one of history’s most fearsome warrior class. However, unlike the Samurai of Japan, the Knights of Europe, or the Immortals of Persia, this was an all woman Army.

B5Eb TIL of the ‘Highest Court in the Land (USA)’, a basketball court on the fifth floor of the Supreme Court Building which is three floors above the Supreme Court.

GVD7 TIL Star Wars was originally about Mace Windu.