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TIL NASA and the German Aerospace Center shoved a big ass telescope inside a 747 so it could work above the clouds.

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w5a7 TIL that the US Supreme Court building has a basketball court on the top floor known as “The Highest Court in the Land”
1WZ7 TIL on June 27, 1844, Mormon Founder Joseph Smith was murdered by an angry mob while he sat in a jail cell. The incident arose after Smith ordered the destruction of a news paper that exposed the fact he had married 8 already-married women.
j68Ga TIL Winston Churchill’s favorite wine was Pol Roger champagne, which he has been estimated to have drank 42,000 bottles in his lifetime. When he died in 1965 Pol Roger ordered black-bordered labels to be placed on all their bottles in his honor.
xVYko TIL during the persecution of English Catholics, Nicholas Owen built secret compartments called "priest holes" into Catholic houses to hide priests from being rounded up. 400 years later some may still be undiscovered, since Owen was tortured to death rather than give up their locations.
mx7Gv TIL: 80% of solitare games are winnable. But often one bad move can ruin it.