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TIL The Hubble space telescope required a fix for a faulty primary mirror, shortly after launch! (It's now 30 years old and still doing well!)

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VL0B TIL that Warner Bros executives didn’t like the idea of Tim Burton killing off Jack Nicholson’s character in the movie, Mars Attacks! In response, Burton had Nicholson then play two characters and killed both of them off.
rNw1x TIL Triceps make up 70% of an arm’s total mass!
1aZxW TIL The entire state of Wyoming only has 2 escalators
VmaB TIL Yoko Ono stalked John Lennon for over a year while he was married, sometimes standing in front of his house for hours silently.
a8ERA TIL the smell of freshly cut grass is actually a distress signal. When grass blades are cut, they release green leaf volatiles (GLVs).It alerts the plant to damage so it can mobilize repair. GLVs are also airborne messages warning neighboring plants of danger.