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TIL there are at least 17 satellites like the Hubble Space Telescope. They are spy satellites pointed at Earth and Hubble is basically built from spare parts.

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EKld TIL Raphael Ravenscroft the musician who played the saxophone melody on Gerry Rafferty’s Baker Street, was only paid £27 for his work and was ‘gutted’ when he first heard the playback because his saxophone was out of tune.
OGWX TIL that if medical errors were a disease, they would be the sixth leading cause of death in America
EgDrx TIL Jeff Cohen who played Chunk, the chubby kid in the Goonies went on to study law and entertainment law later co-founding the Cohen & Gardner firm in Beverly Hills. Earlier he asked Goonies director R.Donner for a recommendation for his college application Donner and his wife offered to pay for it
lnRK TIL that Yuki people, native americans from California, use base 8 instead of 10, because they don’t count with their fingers, but with the space between them