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TIL: Eight spaceships can be connected to the International Space Station at the same time

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jNGAa TIL about the Roland MT80s, a boombox that played MIDI files from floppy discs. It also features a metronome to help people practice learning musical instruments. Also, Roland made these kind of machines up to late 2000s when they added an USB port.
69VQl TIL that the US passed a law in 2002 that authorizes the US Armed Forces to invade the city of The Hague, land of the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands, in case of arrest of any US official by the International Court.
Vndm TIL in 1988, Cuba was the only non-African nation to lend military support to anti-apartheid forces in South Africa that led to the successful defeat of US-backed mercenaries, and is an “example of principled anti-imperialist internationalism in the last decades of the twentieth century.”
AL1x TIL the winner of the $1,000,000 in Mcdonald’s Monopoly doesn’t recieve it as a lump sum; they get an annual cheque for $50,000 for 20 years
6EZPY TIL that the painter James McNeil Whistler was expelled from West Point by Robert E Lee