› added 12 years ago

87

TIL: That one of Bill Nye the Science Guy’s professors at Cornell was Carl Sagan.

Read more m.wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

ADrlo TIL there is a sculpture meant to depict an astronaut in spacesuit on the Moon. It was commissioned and placed on the Moon by the crew of Apollo 15 to commemorate the astronauts and cosmonauts who have died in the advancement of space exploration.
a88B9 TIL that pill bugs AKA roly-polys are crustaceans, not insects.
NXr88 TIL beginning in 46 B.C., in celebration of Julius Caesar's return to Rome after defeating Pompey the Great, the Colosseum was ordered to be flooded for a ship battle reenactment in honor of his military efforts against Gaul & Egypt.
KEm9 TIL Ryan Gosling bought out a whole girl scout cookie stand and handed them out to strangers on the street
grlEA TIL: The first Western film to be broadcast in North Korea was "Bend It Like Beckham," which state-run TV played on 26th December 2002.