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WTF Fun Fact – Space Station Flower Filtration

September 20, 2020
WTF Fun Fact - Space Station Flower Filtration

In 1989, NASA studied house plants as a means of providing clean and pure air for their space station. They found Peace Lilies and Florist’s Chrysanthemums to be the best all-around at filtering the air. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Clean_Air_Study

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WTF Fun Fact – NASA Raids Denny’s

May 12, 2020

NASA’s Office of Inspector General once raided a Denny’s as part of a sting operation to bust a 75 year old woman for possessing and attempting to sell a paperweight containing a moon rock the size of a rice grain. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-woman-detained-moon-rock-20170413-story.html

WTF Fun Fact – NASA Sextant And Slide Rule

February 16, 2020
WTF Fun Fact - Space Shuttle Sextant

On NASA’s Gemini XII flight, the computer docking system failed and Buzz Aldrin (who did his doctoral thesis at MIT on line-of-sight orbital mechanics) successfully calculated the docking trajectory using a sextant and a slide rule. – WTF Fun Facts

Source:
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/gemini-xii-crew-masters-the-challenges-of-spacewalks

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WTF Fun Fact – NASA’s Juno Mission

October 21, 2019
WTF Fun Fact - NASA Probe Name

NASA cleverly chose the name Juno for it’s Jupiter mission. Jupiter’s moons are named after the god’s many mistresses. The Juno space probe sent to monitor Jupiter is named after his wife. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/juno-jupiter-galileo-sex-joke-2016-7

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WTF Fun Fact – Space Pen

September 17, 2019
WTF Fun Fact - NASA Space Pen

The specially created NASA Space Pen is used instead of a simple pencil because the graphite contained in pencils is conductive and can cause short circuits and potentially fires. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing_in_space

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WTF Fun Fact – Spiders Webs

August 17, 2019
WTF Fun Fact - Plastered Spiders Do Amazing

Spiders can get high and build very different kinds of webs while on weed, caffeine, mescaline and LSD. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: http://mentalfloss.com/article/51967/what-does-marijuana-do-spiders

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WTF Fun Fact – A/C vs. The Moon

August 14, 2019
WTF Fun Fact - U.S. Military Spent More Than NASA

The U.S. military spent over US$20 billion a year on air conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan. That’s more than NASA’s budget. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://www.npr.org/2011/06/25/137414737/among-the-costs-of-war-20b-in-air-conditioning

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WTF Fact – Deceased In Space

July 24, 2019
WTF Fact - Three Humans Died In Outter Space(1)

There are only 3 human beings that have died outside Earth’s atmosphere. They are the three cosmonauts who died aboard the Soyuz 11 in 1971. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2018/07/23/only_three_humans_have_died_in_space_the_story_of_soyuz_11.html

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nasa estimated the near earth asteroid eros

June 4, 2019May 15, 2019
NASA estimated the near earth asteroid Eros contains precious metals including gold and platinum worth $20

NASA estimated the near earth asteroid Eros contains precious metals including gold and platinum worth $20,000 billion.

– WTF Fun Facts

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/401227.stm

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