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TIL that most safety features found in cars and other vehicles saw a boom in popularity from the creation of one car, the Tucker 48. Safety features included a pop out windshield, padded dashboard, and even a swivelling headlight depending on which direction you were steering.

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v1Adj TIL John Von Neumann was an American polymath who is known as the last of the great mathematicians. On his deathbed, he entertained his brother by reciting the first lines of each page of Goethe’s Faust word-for-word by heart. He knew state secrets, so federal agents guarded his bed till his death.
R7GOQ TIL that 100's of years ago scribes drew colorful ¶ ("pilcrows") to mark new paragraphs. They'd leave blank spaces for the ¶'s then switch inks and add them. They would often miss some so readers evolved to interpret a blank space (indent) as the start of a new paragraph. Voila.
4xgJ TIL that after Norway banned Life of Brian for blasphemy, it was marketed in Sweden as “The film that is so funny that it was banned in Norway!”
mxkgx TIL in 1961 Judy Garland became the first woman to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year for her LIVE recording, "Judy at Carnegie Hall", and in 1962, at the age of 39, she became the first woman (and youngest person ever) to receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement in film.
XAvQ TIL that mopeds and scooters emit 10-30 times the amount of hydrocarbons per km that cars do