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TIL Almost straight after deployment, Hubble’s optics were found to be flawed. The best solution was to build replacement instruments that fixed the flaw much the same way a pair of glasses correct the vision of a near-sighted person.

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5YbZk TIL that during Haydn's Symphony No. 45 ("Farewell"), the orchestra gradually leaves the stage one-by-one during the performance. Haydn wrote it this way to subtly tell Duke Esterházy that the musicians deserved a vacation.
YWGA TIL that Ed Dwight, the first African American accepted into the Astronaut Program, left the program because of discrimination before ever going into space.
67YZ TIL According to the first item on its list of ingredients, Goldfish snack crackers are made with “smiles.”
8xmX TIL Paris, under Napoleon, purchased the source of the Seine so that the river, technically speaking, starts in Paris.
LdYQ TIL that the greatest single season in a city’s sports history was 1935-36, when Detroit’s MLB, NFL and NHL teams all won their first titles and Joe Louis became heavyweight champion