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TIL It is not necessary to clean the lens or mirror of a telescope if it just has a few visible specks of dust. Overly frequent or aggressive cleaning can actually damage and prematurely age the special coatings on mirrors and lenses–permanently degrading their performance

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EEKP TIL Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie & Emma Thompson all started their career together at Footlights student theater club while at Cambridge university. Same club also gave Simon Bird(The Inbetweeners), John Oliver(The Daily Show) & Douglas Adams(Hitchhickers guide to the galaxy)
1aydO TIL that, despite scathing reviews, every successive film in the Resident Evil franchise has made more money globally than the previous film (with the exception of Resident Evil: Retribution). The series has made more than $1 billion total and 4 out of 6 of the films opened at #1 in North America.
LQBVv TIL that we will probably never discover many highly specialized dinosaur species because they lived in environments where they could not be preserved due to erosion, e.g. mountains
dDW4B TIL that from 1895 through 1907 the Rothschilds family loaned nearly $450,000,000 (equivalent to $14,100,000,000 in 2022) to European governments.
pDQG TIL Paul McCartney dreamed the melody of “Yesterday” one night and immediately wrote the music the next morning. He then looked around for a month to find out whether or not he plagiarized it from someone else.