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TIL That there is a physical bell in the Unity module of the ISS that is rung whenever a crew boards or disembarks the station

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JJ7l TIL a group of developers spent 8 years recreating Streets Of Rage. The game had over 100 levels, 19 playable characters, and 76 remixed songs. Sega shut it down a week after it was released.
KONjB TIL The legendary heart on satin intro for "I Love Lucy" was created specifically for the 1959–67 CBS daytime network rebroadcasts, and subsequent syndication. The original intros featured animated matchstick figures of Arnaz & Ball making reference to each episode's sponsors.
grYgL TIL in 2022, a dispute between Pantone and Adobe resulted in the removal of Pantone color coordinates from Photoshop and Adobe's other design software, causing colors in graphic artists' digital documents to be replaced with black unless artists paid Pantone a separate $15 monthly subscription fee.
9QR6 TIL that the CERN management agreed and signed a legal document that made the web publicly available in such a way that no one could claim ownership of it and that would ensure it was a free and open standard for everyone to use.
mxyrY TIL Soviet gymnast Elena Mukhina, widely touted as the next great gymnastics star until 1979. Her coach rushed her recovery from an injury and pressured her to perform a dangerous move (the Thomas salto), which caused her to break her neck, leaving her a lifelong quadriplegic. She died at 46 in 2006