Post * n9MW — Curious Curator

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TIL The faces on Mount Rushmore will outlast Neil Armstrong’s footprint on the moon. Armstrong’s lunar print is there to stay for about 1 million years. The faces on Mount Rushmore will still be here on Earth for 6 million years after the footprint is gone.

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e0g84 TIL the Chicago Sun-Times bought and and ran a bar to show and uncover corruption.

k0EW TIL Art Scholl - the pilot hired to do in-flight camera work for Top Gun - died filming the scene leading to Goose’s death. His plane spun through its recovery altitude, at which time he radioed “I have a problem… I have a real problem”. The film is dedicated to his memory.

mgPx TIL of Flying Officer Lloyd Allan Trigg. A posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross, his award is unique, as it was awarded on evidence solely provided by the enemy, for an action in which there were no surviving Allied witnesses to corroborate his gallantry.

yQnQa TIL that during Ted Kaczynski's (The Unabomber), sophomore year at Harvard, in 1959, he was recruited for a psychological experiment that, unbeknownst to him, would last three years. The experiment involved psychological torment and humiliation.

vxKK TIL Voltaire never wrote “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it” - Evelyn Beatrice Hall wrote the famous sentence in Friends of Voltiere in 1906