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TIL after successfully winning the online poll to name the ISS module 'Colbert' after Stephen Colbert, NASA went with the eighth most popular name 'Tranquility'. To honor his winning, they named the new station treadmill Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill (COLBERT).

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