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TIL Dumb Ways to Die, the world’s most shared Public Service Announcement (PSA), hit the internet in November 2012. The public service announcement campaign was launched by Metro Trains Melbourne to promote rail safety.

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oXb7 TIL Belgrade has been razed to the ground 44 times.
LQ6gd TIL REM's "What's the Frequency Kenneth" was inspired by an attack on Dan Rather.
kOVbm TIL the Native American greeting of "How" in many Westerns was a real greeting used by speakers of Lakota-Sioux. The word was used only between men.
yQnXa TIL only 2% of Ford buyers took the $27 seat belt option, in 1956. And in the 80's, less than 15% of Americans said they used seat belts and a Gallup poll showed that 65% of Americans opposed mandatory belt laws. Now "more than 90% buckle up regularly".
v1VMr TIL before the word "blooper" was coined, an out-take was called a "boner" (meaning a boneheaded mistake)