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TIL Anyone can apply to use the Hubble Space Telescope. The application process is open to worldwide competition without restrictions on nationality or academic affiliation.

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MZ1A TIL Gene Roddenberry devised the names for his characters Khan (Khan Noonien Singh) and Data’s father Noonien Soong in the hopes that a friend he had met in WWII would recognize his name and contact him.
J1MO8 TIL that, in the UK, if you have bought gold jewelry since 1984, it is likely to contain traces of gold stolen in the £26 million Brink's-Mat robbery.
grDj7 TIL: the dealer who gave Janis Joplin the unusually pure batch of heroin that killed her was the same one who provided Jim Morrison with the batch that ended his life a year later
e0JXD TIL that third Mithridatic War Was Interrupted by a meteor crashing between two opposing armies.
8eOmP TIL that Michael Collins hid from the British by dressing as an Orthodox Jew and even cursed at the Black and Tans in Yiddish!