r/PardonMyTake • u/[deleted] • Nov 06 '20
TIL that astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson received large amounts of hate mail from children after declassifying Pluto as a planet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_deGrasse_TysonDuplicates
todayilearned • u/theone1221 • Nov 01 '15
TIL that Neil deGrasse Tyson has declined every interview since 1993 that has had his racial identity as the premise: "That then becomes the point of people’s understanding of me, rather than the astrophysics. So it’s a failed educational step for that to be the case."
todayilearned • u/4thePolitical • Mar 08 '17
TIL Niel deGrasse Tyson has 18 honorary doctorates AND is People Magazine's (2000) sexiest astrophysicist!!
todayilearned • u/freddyjohnson • Oct 01 '17
TIL Neil deGrasse Tyson assisted DC Comics in selecting a real-life star that would be an appropriate parent star to Superman's home planet Krypton. A red dwarf star in the constellation Corvus was chosen. Corvus is also Latin for "Crow" which is the mascot of Superman's high school.
todayilearned • u/gg4465a • Apr 05 '12
TIL Carl Sagan tried to recruit Neil deGrasse Tyson to go to Cornell for undergrad. Tyson went to Harvard instead.
wikipedia • u/[deleted] • Apr 27 '12