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TIL the phrase “my bad” was first popularized by Manute Bol, who was still learning English at the time

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p8De8 TIL Donating a loved ones body to science is a free way to get cremated remain back.
6ED4l TIL in 2006 a Filipino-born Canadian boy was punished by his school for using his cutlery according to Filipino etiquette. The teacher sanctioned the 7-year-old Luc for what the school called "disgusting" and "piggish" eating habits: using a fork to push his food onto a spoon before eating it.
4XQeg TIL: Guy Fieri, before Food Network fame, used to be the spokesman for Flowmaster
NL7b TIL Volvo invented the modern seatbelt in 1959. To save lives, they decided to make it an “open patent,” allowing other manufacturers to use the same design. Every car produced today uses this mechanism, considered one of the major safety inventions of the 20th century, saving over 1M lives.
XEdrR TIL the blue planet used to be purple. 250 million years ago, the oceans lost all their oxygen and one of the only things to survive was a purple alga/bacteria which would have given the seas an irridescent violet hue. Geologists have found remnants of this purple bacteria embedded in ancient rock.