Post * jNeWQ — Curious Curator

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TIL about Sue Finley, who at 80 is the longest-serving female employee at NASA. She has had a role in nearly every US unmanned space probe, and some missions of other nations.

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Z8VND TIL Osama bin Laden kept "Charlie Bit My Finger" and cat videos saved on his computer.

nebL7 TIL televangelist Pat Robertson had extensive business with West African warlord Charles Taylor, who "has been found responsible for aiding and abetting as well as planning some of the most heinous and brutal crimes in recorded human history" and sentenced to 50 years for crimes against humanity.

Raj TIL Starship Troopers is the only science fiction novel recommended by three of the five branches of the US military.

kO7e1 TIL the first man made object in space (not orbit) was a rocket launched by the Nazi Wehrmacht.

aZmN TIL That Tumbleweeds are actually living plants that pull their roots out of the ground when it gets too dry so the wind can blow them to a more favorable place, where they then re-plant themselves.