Post * eEb5 — Curious Curator

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TIL the rover ‘Opportunity’ had an planned 90 day duration of activity. Almost 11 years later it is still functioning and has provided a vast amount of scientific observations.

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7rvl7 TIL Paul McCartney wrote the melody to the song "Yesterday" before the lyrics. He used placeholder lyrics for the song, titled "Scrambled Eggs" instead: "Scrambled eggs/Oh my baby how I love your legs/Not as much as I love scrambled eggs".

Bg6YL TIL that In 1969, the first message sent over the ARPANET was supposed to be the word "login." However, the system crashed after only two letters were transmitted, sending just "lo."

9BVD TIL Bethesda Softworks was actually offered to make an official open world Game of Thrones game in 2011, but turned it down in order to make Skyrim.

awVDo TIL that an Arizona Senator candidate got away with murdering his Mom & Sister. Claims it was self defense, yet the bodies of his mom and sister were found in their rooms to have died of being shot in there sleep. He claims he killed them in his room after his mother shot at him.

NMdM TIL there was a Star Wars Holiday Special. It was so horrible, Lucas tried to have all copies deleted. To late.