Today I Learned 🎓

2023-05-14 09:00:57 TIL the Pony Express existed for only 18 months [Source] Aprire / Come

2023-05-14 08:01:43 TIL from 1976 to 1989 an unknown taping noise was audible worldwide on commercial and civilian communications (tv broadcast, commercial aviation, SW radio). The source was the Duga radar "The Russian Woodpecker" a huge over-the-horizon radar used by the Soviets as a missile detection system. [Source] Aprire / Come

2023-05-14 06:00:57 TIL, about Poundbury, a town that was built according to the Principles of King Charles III. It started construction in 1993 and is currently 80% built. 4,600 people currently live there. [Source] Aprire / Come

2023-05-14 03:01:44 TIL about Jack Parsons, rocket scientist and occultist, friend of Aliester Crowley and L Ron Hubbard, who founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and died in an explosion. [Source] Aprire / Come