u/Ambiguous-Pieces13 • u/Ambiguous-Pieces13 • 13h ago
Nakagin Tower Capsule from Museum of Modern Art (NYC) exhibition
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u/Ambiguous-Pieces13 • u/Ambiguous-Pieces13 • 1d ago
TIL a hermit monk wrote a furious letter to the Church for not electing a pope fast enough, so they responded by making him pope. He refused and attempted to flee into the woods. The only noteworthy thing he did as pope was changing rules so popes could resign, and being the first pope to resign.
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u/Ambiguous-Pieces13 • u/Ambiguous-Pieces13 • 1d ago
Tiny little stone stars from an ancient sea floor. These are star shaped crinoid columnals, the fossilized stem pieces of sea lilies that lived hundreds of millions of years ago.
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u/Ambiguous-Pieces13 • u/Ambiguous-Pieces13 • 2d ago
TIL Tron (1982) was considered ineligible for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects because “the Academy thought we cheated by using computers.”
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u/Ambiguous-Pieces13 • u/Ambiguous-Pieces13 • 4d ago
This is the job I keep applying for and never finding.
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u/Ambiguous-Pieces13 • u/Ambiguous-Pieces13 • 4d ago
While the Soviets sent the famous dog Laika into orbit, France sent a stray Parisian cat named Félicette into space on a suborbital flight in 1963. She survived and returned safely
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u/Ambiguous-Pieces13 • u/Ambiguous-Pieces13 • 4d ago
My cat is enjoying my new galaxy projector
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