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TIL the ISS has port and starboard lights!

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VBooB TIL the expression "streets ahead" is an English phrase dating back to the nineteenth century, not something made up by the writers on Community.
4kKo6 TIL: The E-6B Doomsday plane has a 5 mile long antenna
8gRP TIL: Eggo waffles were originally called “Froffles”. “Eggo” was a name people began using to describe the egg-y taste, and the company eventually adopted the name.
16WgP TIL if you poop at the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, a truck has to take your waste out because the building isn't connected to the municipal sewage system! 💀
5Nj8 TIL that Volkswagen was fined by the EPA for using “defeat devices” to cheat emissions tests… in 1974, 41 years before the recent controversy over the same thing.