› added 7 years ago

60

TIL that in 2014, a group of ameteur rocket scientists hacked into a NASA probe that had been decommissioned in 1997.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

QJAOX TIL Squanto was taken from his home village, transported to Europe, conscripted into slavery, escaped and made his way back to his homeland, only to find he was the last of his tribe.
m1vGy TIL the standard artwork on playing cards that I personally have known since childhood has remained relatively unchanged since 1862
jNDJj TIL of the Falcon Sex Hat, a hat that allows a falcon to have sex with a breeders head to collect the semen.
Oopp7 TIL that ants sleep but not in the sense we understand sleep. Research into sleep patterns of insects showed that ants have a cyclical pattern of resting periods which each nest as a group observes, lasting around eight minutes in any 12-hour period.
BrkOW TIL a perpetual stew was maintained in Perpignan from the 15th century until World War II