Post * jNGM — Curious Curator

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TIL that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had to remember not to close the door on the Eagle Lunar Lander, because it had no outside door handle.

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oYrE TIL that North Korea captured a U.S. ship, the U.S.S. Pueblo, in 1968. North Korea maintains the ship as a tourist attraction and propaganda symbol to this day.

VMgGB TIL that one popular account of the origin of the phrase "Milky Way" arises from the Ancient Greek myth of Hera (wife of Zeus) breastfeeding Heracles (AKA Hercules). Hercules fed so strongly Hera recoiled, spraying milk from her breast. Creating the Milky Way.

4kOdX TIL: About Saburō Kurusu, a Japanese diplomat to the United States during the Pearl Harbor attack. He was unaware of the attack and was on his way to the Secretary of State to deliver a reply to the previous diplomatic communications.

xJ6k TIL Nancy Cartwright attempted to disturb the guards at Buckingham Palace yelling, “What’s happening man, I’m Bart Simpson, dude!”, she succeeded.

NKW6 TIL Dolly, the cloned sheep from the 90s, was named after Dolly Parton because the sheep was cloned from the cell of a mammary gland and the scientist thought the person most synonymous with mammary glands was Dolly Parton.