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

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vPd9r TIL: Nominative Determinism is the hypothesis that people tend to gravitate towards areas of work that fit their names
Vr6B TIL in the last 5 millennia, genetic change in humans has occurred at a rate roughly 100 times higher than any other period of human evolution. Humans today are more genetically different from humans living 5,000 years ago than these people were from humans living 40,000 years ago.
pb04 TIL Physicists like using 2000 year old ancient Roman lead in their experiments and this is pissing off archaeologists
wonlM TIL of the 1752 adoption of the Gregorian calendar in the UK. To align the UK with Western Europe, the year 1751 was only 282 days and in 1752 it was deemed neccessary to eliminate 11 days with Sept 14th coming after Sept 2nd.
YpYJ7 TIL How Humans Would Look If We Had Various Animals’ Bone Structures