Post * RNg8 — Curious Curator

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TIL Janis Joplin left money in her will for a funeral party - the Grateful Dead performed

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WkOjB TIL that female dragonflies will fake their own death to avoid unwanted advances from male dragonflies

e1jL TIL: Chris Hadfield (the first Canadian to walk in space and one time commander of the ISS) recorded the first music video in space. Before he handed over command of the ISS in May 2013, he paid tribute to David Bowie by recording his version of Space Oddity.

XlR8 TIL: That Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, who died at the age of 101 in 2002, had an older sister, Violet, who sadly died at the age of eleven, eight years before the Queen Mother’s own birth. Which means that one sister died in the 19th century while the other died in the 21st century.

JYVQm TIL there is a group of scam baiters who turn the tables on the people who send out scam emails. In one case, they convinced a Nigerian scammer to travel 700 miles to Arabic-speaking Chad even though he didn't speak the language and didn't have enough money to make his way back home.

nZyG TIL that founder of Amazon Jeff Bezos was one of the first investors in Google, investing $250,000 in 1998