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TIL Despite owning the patent, Volvo made the three-point seat belt design free for other manufacturers to use in order to increase its adoption and save lives

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v1bBD TIL that Wall Street was the site of an actual wall that the original Dutch settlers built, using slave labour, to defend against Indigenous and British forces. It also contained a slave market for 50 years, which New York City collected taxes from.
KZo4 TIL Made in China stickers are made in Korea.
x4ek TIL Grand Theft Auto Enthusiasts ‘Guess Mapped’ the entire GTA V Map Insanely Accurately just by Watching GTA V Commercials/Ads. This was before map release and/or the release of the game.
1MgP TIL that a 10th grader was jailed for 3 years without a trial for a robbery he didn’t commit. When they finally let him go, he never even got an apology.
69M77 TIL Bakhtiyar Khilji, the Muslim general who invaded and destroyed the ancient university and library of Nalanda (india) in 1193 it took 3 consecutive month's for 9 million books to burn