Post * nedWY — Curious Curator

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TIL Ally Sloper's Half Holiday, a British comics magazine, first published in 1884 is regarded to be the first comic strip magazine to feature a recurring character. Sales of the magazine have been as high as 350,000, the magazine describing itself as "the largest selling paper in the world"

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l7EEa TIL When Shannon Lucid arrived on Mir space station, the deputy commander noted that fans will be taken care because women love to clean. Also, her male cosmonaut crew mates will be on their best behavior and pay more attention to the way they behave, they act and they speak when a lady is on board

8alP4 TIL the Ozma problem is an old problem asks if we could communicate the concept of left and right to an alien over the radio. In the 1950's physicists found a way when they observed that certain radioactive decays actually "care" about if the atom is spinning clockwise or anti-clockwise.

eV7n TIL at the shooting championships in Kuwait last year, Kazakhstan won a gold medal and Borat’s Kazakhstan National Anthem was played at the ceremony

XE6K6 TIL despite having killed Captain James Cook for kidnapping their chief, the Hawaiians treated Cook's body as if he was a Chief also, giving him royal funeral rights and turning his bones into a religious icon akin to that of medieval saint relics.

0wgxA TIL Elephants "may show lateral preference when grasping with their trunks: some prefer to twist them to the left, others to the right." Essentially, they can be left or right "trunked"!