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TIL in 2009 Stephen Colbert won a NASA competition to have a module of the ISS named after him, but NASA opted to name it ‘Tranquility’ instead. They did, however, name a treadmill on the ISS after him. It is called the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill (C.O.L.B.E.R.T.)

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epw0J TIL in 1906, the raja of Bali and his entourage of priests, guards, women and children marched in trance towards the Dutch invaders. They took bullets from the Dutch army, and stabbed each other with ritual daggers until every single one died. This was a ritualistic mass suicide as final resistance
p8y6e TIL: There is a unit of sound called a "bel". A decibel (dB) is 1/10 of it.
9d7B TIL that after a falling out with Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein–who had written the phrase “A rose is a rose is a rose–supposedly received a telegram from him that read: "A bitch is a bitch is a bitch”
nXbd TIL That after Russell Crowe publicly trashed George Clooney for being in an ad, Clooney sent him a note saying, “Dude, the only people who succeed when two famous people are fighting is People magazine. What is wrong with you?”
5V5kD TIL the first international war crime trial took place in the Holy Roman Empire in 1474. Peter von Hagenbauch was found guilty of atrocities committed during the occupation of Breisach, and beheaded.