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TIL that anyone on earth can request and reserve time using the Hubble Space Telescope.

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rR4ey TIL that the worst player in FIFA 2018, German Tommy Käßemodel, isn’t even a professional soccer player, but the kit man of the team.
7RYL TIL the European Bison or ‘wisent’ exists and was considered extinct in the wild in 1927. Since then, this species has been reintroduced in many European countries. They are making an amazing comeback and now are no longer considered an endangered species
Rvx7 TIL a UK village redesigned traffic flow in its town center to eliminate all traffic signs and signals. Since the redesign, the accident rate dropped, economic activity increased, and one citizen noted, “I think we’re all being kinder to one another.”
epaAn TIL that some flowering plants have evolved parabolic floral structures that act as "sound beacons" to be acoustically detectable for echo-locating bats
5Yoep TIL an experiment was conducted into the movement of Apatosaurus tails. It's possible that the dinosaurs may have been able to use their tails like whips and make a sonic boom.