October 28, 1886: the Statue of Liberty was unveiled with only two women invited onto the island. Refused tickets as "unaccompanied women", suffragists chartered a boat and protested in the harbor. Island or boat?
#History #StatueOfLiberty
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The Declaration is dated July 4, 1776. But the parchment was signed starting August 2.
Lee's resolution passed July 2, the text was adopted July 4, and 56 delegates eventually signed.
Which signer would you meet?
#History #1776 #July4th
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In 2007, dried tardigrades spent 10 days exposed to space on ESA's FOTON-M3.
Vacuum alone didn't lower their survival. Full solar UV did: only 3 survived.
Which water bear trick surprises you most?
#Tardigrades #Science #Space
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Saturn's rings are raining into the planet. Cassini's 2017 dives found up to 10,000 kg of ring material falling every second, and a 2018 NASA study gave the rings 300 million years or less.
#Saturn #Space
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Alfred Wegener said the continents drift in 1912. Critics rejected it.
Then Marie Tharp mapped a rift along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, and magnetic stripes showed the seafloor spreading. Plates move about as fast as fingernails grow.
#Geology #PlateTectonics #Science
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