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TIL that the letters "SRS" imprinted on the cover for an airbag for a car stands for "Supplemental Restraint System."

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M6MB TIL of the word “callipygian,” which means “having a well-shaped buttocks.”
pnLA TIL Native Americans had cities ranging in size from 15,000 to 40,000 people, a number any city in the US would match until 1780 and rivaled cities like London at the same time.
xZQ5 TIL Florida Man Carl Tanzler, an X-ray tech, fell in love with a patient and exhumed her body when she died to sleep with her corpse for 7 years. Charges were dropped because the statue of limitations expired by the time anyone found out.
QN84p TIL: Ferrero, the company that makes Nutella, uses 25% of the global hazelnut supply
J1Jnk TIL the Babylonian exile of the Jews was only 60 years long