Post * x6Jo — Curious Curator

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TIL That the first animal launched into orbit, Laika, was found as a stray wandering the streets of Moscow. Soviet scientists assumed that such animals had already learned to endure conditions of extreme cold and hunger

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V7y8 TIL In Washington State there is a “mutual combat” law that takes legal precedence as long as two individuals consensually engage in a fair fight and don’t harm bystanders/property. Police officers are not allowed to intervene, even if they are a few feet away.

p88yO TIL that those of us who can throw our vision into and out of focus at will are actually contracting and relaxing tiny 'ciliary bodies' inside our eyes which distort the shape of the eye's lenses

yQ0Al TIL in 1998 Charlie Brooker caused a magazine to be pulled from the shelves for writing an article depicting children taking out their violent impulses on animals in the fictional 'Helmut Werstler's Cruelty Zoo'

NX4RQ TIL Pope Paul VI dedicated Psalm 8 to the Apollo 11 astronauts and blessed the Moon-landing. After following the mission on TV, he honoured everyone involved and "conquerors of the Moon"

5MRp TIL there is a live HD feed from a camera mounted on the International Space Station from which you can watch our Earth. Not only that, but you can easily set said feed as your screen saver.