Post * neK97 — Curious Curator

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TIL Carl Sagan convinced NASA to turn the Voyager Spacecraft towards earth and take the iconic “Pale Blue Dot” photo nearly 4 billions miles away from earth

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aw57Z TIL cocktails originated from horses who had their tails docked. In the 1800's they docked tails of horses that were not thoroughbred - 'cocktailed horses'. It later referred to a vulgar, ill-bred person, and finally an 'acceptable diluted alcoholic drink, not purebred, and raised above its station'

gMZab TIL: A group of 45 men were ejected from a Detroit Tigers game for being dressed as Magnum PI, smoking cigars, and cat-calling women.

awQ99 TIL that a Scottish lady, Joy Milne, is able to detect Parkinsons' prior to formal diagnosis and has helped scientists understand the development of the disease

Y7RJ7 TIL the French nobility is still around and larger than before the Revolution

QNyb6 TIL that a woman in Pennsylvania needed a life-saving liver transplant, but she kept testing positive for alcohol, which prevented her from getting a transplant, despite swearing that she hadn’t been drinking. The doctors were confused, and it later turned out that her body produced its own alcohol.