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TIL that SEGA is short for Service Games

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M7ekW TIL under German law, self-driving cars must be programmed to avoid human death at all cost. This means the car is allowed to destroy property, accelerate beyond legal speeds, and hit animals to avoid hitting a human.
mx0Lv TIL that right after President William McKinley was shot in September 1901 a surgeon was called upon to help him. The surgeon didn't know it was for the president and said,"Don't you see, I can't leave. I am in the middle of a case even if it were for the President of the United States"
AEX4 TIL the QWERTY keyboard layout is very inefficient when compared to alternatives. It was originally created to “slow down” typists in order to decrease the chances of jamming the typewriter. However, the layout still endures today as we use it almost exclusively.
jLlv TIL: The Back to the Future DeLorean and the Star Trek Enterprise were designed by the same man
b9YVZ TIL that the aviation distress call "Mayday" was created in 1923 and derives from the French "m'aidez" or "help me"