› added 5 years ago

129

TIL the Hubble telescope can take images that are 1.5 Billion Pixels. More than can be fit on 600 HD television screens. The largest and sharpest image being that of the Andromeda Galaxy.

Read more sci.esa.int

via reddit.com

QbWp TIL in the early 90s Ozzy Osbourne announced his retirement tour. It was called “No More Tours”, a pun on his No More Tears album, however in 1995 he returned to touring, dubbing his concert performances “The Retirement Sucks Tour”.
OGGrR TIL about the Viviers family, who moved from South Africa to Northern BC, Canada because of an extreme allergy to sunlight. Prince Rupert is one of the most reliably cloudy places on the planet, and the Viviers family won a Supreme Court decision to become permanent residents on medical grounds.
W775B TIL that the Capitol was designed to have George Washington's tomb on public display. Both houses passed bills saying he should be buried there, and his wife consented, but due to various delays it took until 1830 for it to be viable. After an attempted theft of his head, the project was cancelled.
9j5D TIL that during the Great Recession, Australia didn’t bail out their banks. Instead, they gave each citizen $900, no questions asked. As a result, Australia was the only western country not to go into recession.
W70mL TIL that Eisenhower called President Kennedy's race to the moon "nuts" in 1963. A New York Times editorial stated that the total cost for a moon landing could build "a Harvard University for every state"