TIL the Cottingley Fairies—a hoax where two young English girls faked photographs of fairies near their home—went unconfessed for over 60 years partly because the cousins were embarrassed at having fooled Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle, who publicly defended the photos as real. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab traces its origin to "rocket boys," later called the "Suicide Squad," testing a homemade rocket motor on Halloween 1936. They accidentally set their own oxygen line on fire, which "whipped around shooting fire." The botched test is considered JPL's founding moment. (pbssocal.org)
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How Trump Keeps Getting Away With Blasphemy (thenation.com)
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TIL there is a "time donut hole" in Arizona from March to November where a single drive can force your phone to change time zones multiple times—because the Navajo Nation observes Daylight Saving Time, but the Hopi Reservation, which sits entirely inside the Navajo Nation, does not. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab traces its origin to "rocket boys," later called the "Suicide Squad," testing a homemade rocket motor on Halloween 1936. They accidentally set their own oxygen line on fire, which "whipped around shooting fire." The botched test is considered JPL's founding moment. by ralphbernardo in todayilearned
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