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TIL that in the infamous Ford Pinto, tests found that a 1 dollar piece, 1 pound piece of plastic would have prevented the gas tank from being ruptured. However, this was discarded as it went over the arbitrary 2000 pound and 2000 dollar limit executive Lee Iacocca had.

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JYlM1 TIL in WW2 a female feudal lord took control over 275 Nazis to force them to fix up her island after German occupation ended in Sark
1agn8 TIL Former Triple Crown winner American Pharoah has sex 3 times a day everyday and his owners charge a fee of $200,00. This leads to an annual revenue of about $30,000,000.
VMXv0 TIL that many early, animated Disney films were made by filming actors in real time and then tracing over their bodies frame by frame. This led to studios repurposing older animations as time went on, and helped develop modern-day roto-scoping and motion-capture technology.
Wwa8 TIL: “Government once even claimed that Hooters discriminates against men because it hires big-breasted female waiters. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission only dropped its complaint after Hooters ran a commercial showing a hairy male server wearing Hooters’ skimpy uniform.”
LBr TIL in 1959 a pilot ejected from his jet at 45,000 feet and spent the next 40 minutes being thrusted up and down inside of a thunderstorm.