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TIL Beauty and the beast was written to help girls accept arranged marriages

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BrEgW TIL that Martin Luther King Jr. Day resulted from a campaign by Stevie Wonder and Gil Scott Heron, the musician behind The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
lnxA TIL Volvo invented the three point seat belt and then gave free license to all other auto manufacturers to use it
J1Oam TIL that the French have road signs with an addition of "RAPPEL" meaning "reminder". I just love that France puts up road signs in a passive-aggressive way showing telling you "You should have noticed the first time, but the speed limit is XX."
v1A8R TIL, Italy once tried to ban pasta because they believed that it weighed Italians down and prevented them from achieving any kind of greatness.
e0ARL TIL only 16% of millionaires inherited their fortune. 47% made it through business, and 23% got it through paid work.