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

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Q1G9 TIL that former President of Uruguay, José Mujica, was considered the poorest president in the world and would donate 90 percent of his $12,000 monthly salary to charities and would even wait his turn at public hospitals.
XG98 TIL that when Syphilis first surfaced, the English called it the ‘French disease’, the French called it the ‘Spanish disease’, Germans called it the French evil, Russians called it Polish disease, Poles called it Turkish disease, Turks called it Christian disease & Japan called it ‘Chinese pox’
8e1BP TIL Sid Vicious got his name after a friend’s hamster, named Syd (after Syd Barrett), who bit him.
4Qlg TIL that the infamous ending to the movie Se7en only came about because director David Fincher was mailed the wrong version of the script.
VBY78 TIL that there was at least one Kennedy family member in federal elective office from 1947, when John F. Kennedy became a member of Congress from Massachusetts, until 2011 when Patrick J. Kennedy II retired as a member of Congress from Rhode Island.