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TIL Space Shuttle Discovery has a unique “teardrop shape” on its windshield tiles due to an unusual and unknown error.

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9bxQ TIL Many individual states have laws recognizing American Sign Language as a “foreign language”. A number of U.S. universities even accept ASL credit to fulfill foreign language requirements
ne17r TIL that in a 2018 English women's football (soccer) match, the referee, upon being without a coin for the pregame coin toss, had the team captains play rock paper scissors to determine which team would kick-off. The referee was subsequently suspended by the FA for three weeks
wLYXP TIL NASA found an area on Mars which supposedly has sand dunes that look like Morse code. They have dubbed it “Martian Morse Code”
0wjjR TIL that guitarist Eddie Van Halen was half Indonesian, and that his family immigrated to the United States because of how badly his mixed-race parents were treated in the Netherlands.
D19XY TIL Despite famously missing 97 out of 253 episodes (38%), classic "Doctor Who" is actually very well preserved compared to its contemporaries. "Dixon of Dock Green" is for example missing 400 out of its 432 episodes. (92.6%).