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

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LkQl0 TIL Microsoft has a team keeping billion of devices with correct time. They call themselves 'Time Lords'.
9YpbX TIL - Alien Hand Syndrome where "A 77-year-old woman [observed] her left hand moving without her knowledge while watching television. Her left hand stroked her face and hair as if somebody was controlling it."
jNwpE TIL that passive internet use (looking at stuff but not posting) affects your well-being in a more negative way than active internet use (commenting and posting).
D7MP TIL The word “Bupkis,” common slang for “nothing,” comes from the Yiddish phrase meaning “having about as much worth as goat turds.”
b9G1N TIL that in 1951 Matt Ingram was convicted of “reckless eyeballing,” the improper looking at a white person, with sexual intent, in North Carolina. His accuser testified that he had scared her when he looked at her from a distance of about 75 feet. Ingram spent two and half years in prison.