Post * j7lQ — Curious Curator

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TIL of Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who discovered radio pulsars. Her thesis supervisor took credit and was awarded a Nobel Prize.

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kJAke TIL Krystyna Skarbek, sometimes referred to as "Greatest female spy of WWII" was the first female agent of the British to serve in the field and the longest-serving of all Britain's wartime women agents. Abandoned by the British after WW2 she had to fight for recognition and British citizenship.

RRl1 TIL the word “ghoti,” is a constructed word used to demonstrate the irregularities of English pronunciations. It can pronounced as ‘fish,’ or completely silently.

x6AVg TIL that Robert Franklin Stroud, was a convicted murderer in solitary confinement. While there, he raised a collection of 300canaries & published his research on avian pathology,which was useful in finding a cure for diseases affecting farmed birds; earning himself the nickname "Birdman of Alcatraz"

QgYM TIL the first ever .com Domain Name was registered 28 years ago today -> ‘Symbolics.com’

x67Zb TIL That after the news of the Dien Bien Phu's fall. The Archbishop of Paris ordered a mass, all entertainment activities are halted and radio performances are replaced with solemn music.