Last week, Karen Nyberg decided to make a stuffed dinosaur for her 3-year old son out of spare materials she had lying around, and posted it on Pinterest. This wouldn't be news — except for the fact that Nyberg is an astronaut aboard the International Space Station.
"I made this dinosaur for my son last Sunday," Nyberg wrote. "It is made out of velcro-like fabric that lines the Russian food containers found here on the ISS. It is lightly stuffed with scraps from a used t-shirt."
As far as we know, this is the first example of space crafts — and certainly the first craft item from space posted to Pinterest.
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Pinterest, the photo- and article-pinning site, has recently been on an international expansion, adding European offices. It's fair to say the company wasn't planning any interstellar expansion until Nyberg came along.
This isn't the first quirky social-media activity Nyberg has offered the world from space. She has her own "sewing corner" on the station, made her own headband to stop her hair from getting too unruly in zero-G, and posted a YouTube video of what it's like to wash your hair in space:

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Thumbnail image: Pinterest, Karen Nyberg