› added 7 years ago

290

TIL the ‘Moon Museum’ is a small ceramic wafer three-quarters of an inch by half an inch in size which was left on the surface of the moon during the apollo 12 mission. It contains artworks by the six most prominent artists of the 1960’s, including Andy Warhol, who drew a penis.

Read more wikipedia.org

via ift.tt

4kgYR TIL that astronauts on the International Space Station get 15-16 sunrises and sunsets each day.
nWNPY TIL animals can donate blood to save the lives of other animals
QNReM TIL that the sixth most common language in the world has no native speakers (Modern Standard Arabic)
Z8JKa TIL that police officers tap the rear of your vehicle with their hand when performing a traffic stop so that if anything were to happen to the officer during the encounter, there would be physical evidence of them coming into contact with your vehicle via fingerprints.
O7d6 TIL the first commercial digital navigation system, Etak, was released in 1985, before commercial GPS. The founders had to digitize their own maps which were so accurate they’re still in use today, including in Apple’s Maps app.