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TIL Volvo invented the three point seat belt and then gave free license to all other auto manufacturers to use it

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dbZ7 TIL that China employs mobile “death vans” to carry out its executions, of these 65% result in harvested organs.
XEyyj TIL that cavemen had relatively straight teeth and that crooked teeth are a modern phenomenon
GQgG TIL that Nickelodeon’s green slime earned its nickname “GAK” after the street name for heroine due to the crew of “Double Dare!”’s recreational drug usage.
Mmr8 TIL Sergeant Tommy Prince of the 1st Special Service Brigade (aka “The Devil’s Brigade”) would sneak into SS Officers’ quarters and kill every third officer while they slept in their beds, and leave the others alive so they could find them dead in the morning.
yQBKM TIL that Winston Churchill was in serious financial debt, owing up to $3.75 MILLION dollars (in today's money)