Post * Z9QB — Curious Curator

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TIL that Icelanders have no family names. Instead, their surname is just their father’s name plus “son” or “dottir”

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Lvmr TIL astronauts aboard the ISS are growing lettuce to study outer space gardening techniques.

D1ekY TIL in the 1900s, Radithor was marketed as an energy drink, but was really just distilled water with radium in it. When the first person died of the radiation poisoning, he had to be buried in a lead coffin. His body was still radioactive when he was disinterred years later.

JQk TIL George S. Patton participated in the first ever modern pentathlon Summer 1912 Olympics. In the pistol shooting competition, controversy came about because he said the holes in the paper were so big he shot through the some spot twice. It was credited as a miss.

7aPL TIL Isaac Asimov was such a prolific and wide ranging writer he had work published in all 10 major categories of the Dewey decimal system

OYNg TIL The shortest regularly scheduled flight in the world is 1.7 miles and takes less than two minutes from takeoff to landing.