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TIL that Volvo invented most important safety device ‘Three point seat belt’. Volvo could have netted a fortune on patents alone but gave free license to all other auto manufacturers to use it as free life saving tool than something to profit from.

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R7Akw TIL "Said the actress to the bishop," is the original, "That's what she said."
ABWg TIL that Autrian ethologist Karl von Frisch was nominated for the Noble Prize in 1927 for his work on deciphering the Waggle dance of honey bees. Using the Waggle dance, a bee communicates to other worker bees the direction and distance of the most productive flowers using the angle of the sun.
M7De8 TIL in 1986 an American woman, Judith Richardson Haimes, who worked as a psychic had an allergic reaction after receiving an iodine tracer injection (for a CAT scan) that allegedly disabled her psychic powers. She sued the hospital and was awarded $600,000 for pain and suffering and loss of income.
pagO TIL Burning Mountain in Australia is the site of a coal fire which has been burning for 6,000 years.
wLmmJ TIL The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation helped save the lives of 122 million children since 1990.