Post * X0kZX — Curious Curator

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TIL In 1971, Alan Shepard hit a golf ball on the moon. He made four swings, “a shank” with the third, and on the fourth swing he caught the ball flush. “Miles and miles and miles,” he said to the TV audience

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vrYK TIL Weird Al Yankovic turned down a $5 million beer endorsement because he said “ a lot of my fans are young and impressionable”.

oRkKR TIL that Hyacinth Thrash wasn't the only survivor of the Jonestown Massacre. The other was 79 year old Grover Cleveland Davis who being hard of hearing slept through the death assembly. He died a year later.

YZ4W [TIL] Surya Bonaly is the ONLY figure skater who has ever landed a one-bladed skating backflip.

e05PD TIL that rats given anti-anxiety medication will be less likely to help other rats that are trapped (because the free rats don't feel the trapped rats' anxiety)

yMoJ TIL that in 1979, an unknown group of people paid for the erection of the “Georgia Guidestones”, 6 granite slabs that instruct the survivors of an apocalyptic scenario how to rebuild a better world.