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TIL that after almost 20 years of battling for a Hubble budget and creating the telescope, and after finally putting it into orbit, the first images NASA received were blurry because the mirror curvature was off by 2.2 thousandth of a millimeter.

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QNGwX TIL about “Dancing Mania”, a social phenomenon in Europe which involved outbreaks of up to thousands of people dancing erratically. Participants suddenly became violent at the color red, and would sometimes dance for days, or even to death.
aaDM TIL canned food excavated from the steamboat Bertrand was still safe to eat 110 years after it sank.
OodkX TIL that Komodo Dragons are in fact venomous. For decades it was believed that their bite was dangerous because of toxic bacteria in their mouths.
xVwV7 TIL Since 1953, women in South Korea have been allowed to take one day off a month if they have painful periods.
Oo8Q7 TIL that Johnny Gilbert, the announcer on "Jeopardy!", is 94 years old and has been in the game show business since the 1950s