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Michael Collins, a NASA astronaut and Command Modul Pilot for Apollo 11, the first lunar landing in history, has passed away at the age of 90. Inspired to become an astronaut after watching John Glenn’s Mercury-Atlas 6 flight, he made two spaceflights and later received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

I'm sick of following my dreams, man. I'm just gonna ask where they're going and hook up with them later. MITCH HEDBERG

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Watching this glass shaping process is mesmerizing! 🤩 Find more at https://t.co/gq3dJOkwWZ 🎥 jeremymaxwellwintrebert / Instagram #engineering https://t.co/1lmmnSvjC1

When a betting company organised an egg-and-spoon race in London (a tiny village in Eastern France) they claimed to be behind ‘The largest athletics event in London’ in 2012. Olympic organisers were not pleased.

The team studied the dragonfly's flying prowess, honed by 300 years of evolution. 🧐 #engineering https://t.co/ig1HTaNEve

Of Neptune’s 13 moons, Triton is the largest—and it’s a real oddity. Triton orbits in the opposite direction of Neptune’s rotation, making it the only large moon within our solar system with a retrograde orbit. Because of this, scientists believe Triton originated in the Kuiper Belt and was snagged by Neptune's gravity millions of years ago.⁠ ⁠ Triton is also extraordinarily cold. It’s so frigid, much of its nitrogen-rich atmosphere is actually frost. When Voyager 2 passed by Triton in 1989, things only got stranger. The spacecraft captured images that revealed plumes of icy material spewing from the moon’s surface. The cause of this activity remains a mystery. NASA’s Trident mission aims to find out more, with a proposed launch date in October 2025. Link in bio for 11 of our solar system's most magnificent moons. ⁠

Ultramarathon-runner Dean Karnazes doesn’t have a ‘lactate threshold’ like most athletes, which means he can theoretically run and run until he needs to sleep.

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It’s Hump Day, and we’re spotlighting the hybodus, or “hump tooth!” It’s one of a few species in the Hybodontidae family and lived some 180 million years ago. Hybodontids were common sharks during most of the Mesozoic and are regarded as a sister group to modern sharks and rays. They had robust braincases, heavy dorsal spines, and well-developed rib cages (an unusual feature in sharks). The model pictured shows what Hybodus may have looked like. See it up close in the Hall of Vertebrate Origins on the Museum’s fourth floor. 🦈 Photo: © AMNH

An IRS agent paid for the bitcoin mixing service while posing online as a narcotics dealer. 🧺💵 #engineering https://t.co/2XyUYeZWiz

She had completely forgotten about renting out 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch'. 📼 #engineering https://t.co/xeeYp4JMGO