Post * eKVE — Curious Curator

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TIL Buzz Aldrin’s (second person to walk the moon) mother’s maiden name is “Moon.”

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pYOQ4 TIL of Didier Delsalle, the only pilot to have successfully landed a helicopter on the summit (8848m) of Mt Everest.

8evJX TIL Emergency vehicles use a device that manipulates traffic signals to reduce response times and avoid collisions with traffic

jN8JR TIL that a catholic altar boy born in Boston dropped out of school, came to Jamaica and then join an Ethiopian Zion Church which he further transformed into an international drug network. The organization was later indicted in Florida for smuggling over 100 tons of marijuana.

7rVNb TIL Australian opium farmers found mysterious crop circles in their fields. The culprits were wallabies who got high and bounced around in circles

NXpb8 TIL that since 1959, in the United States, the inch is based on a specific metric length. One inch is defined as being exactly 25.4 millimeters.