Post * x6Pk1 — Curious Curator

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TIL that NASA engineers designed a make up kit because they thought female astronauts would want make up in space

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Oorl4 TIL, the worst opening in chess is called The Bongcloud Attack. It has been used by Grandmasters as both a joke and as a show of dominance.

JZr1 TIL that it is possible to receive an Oxford degree with “congratulatory” honors; the work was so excellent that professors stand and applaud.

ZDXY TIL that an African American woman named Beulah Mae Donald won a $7,000,000 settlement from The United Klans of America in Alabama, thereby bankrupting the association.

LkAd9 TIL In the 1960s Soviet Russia trained an all-female space squad in absolute secrecy. One of these cosmonauts — Valentina Tereshkova — became the first woman in space. But the existence of the female program was classified. Moscow shut the space squad down, and hid its existence for decades.

Wk8d9 TIL that the oldest animal (at least, the oldest whose age has been identified) was a 507 year-old clam that washed up on the beach in Iceland. Researchers, not realizing how old the clam was, killed it while they were examining it.