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TIL that in honor of The Hubble Space Telescope’s 30th anniversary, NASA will show you what pic the telescope took of space on your birthday. Enter your birthdate, and enjoy your beautiful, ‘out of this world’ result.

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ojAE TIL that a US passport effectively expires 6 months before its actual expiration date, banning travelers from entering many countries
Geng TIL in 1996 Brian Zembic agreed to receive breast implants and keep them for one year in return for US$100,000. He won the bet but became accustomed to the breasts and did not have them removed.
yQPla TIL the University of Iowa, at the end of the first quarter of every home football game, turns and acknowledges the critically ill children watching the game from the hospital suites overlooking the stadium across the street.
gMbXX TIL the $100 bill is the most common US note in circulation, followed by the $1, and then the $20 with 14.2 billion, 12.7 billion, and 9.5 billion notes, respectively, in circulation as of 2019
4XZER TIL: Tess than 75 years after the discovery of gold in 1848, almost every grizzly bear in California had been tracked down and killed. ... Two years later in 1924, what was thought to be a grizzly was spotted in Sequoia National Park for the last time and thereafter, grizzlies were never seen again