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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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M7AEa TIL there were at least nine U.S. Army colonels from Virginia at the outbreak of the Civil War. The only one who joined the Confederate Army was Robert E. Lee.
BrYle TIL that the Lighthouse of Alexandria, the first lighthouse in the world, was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, constructed during the 3rd century BC and it was built of limestone from a quarry near the coast
9YoLQ TIL Owen and Luke Wilson's father was the first person to put Monty Python's Flying Circus on TV in America.
W7YQ8 TIL that when a Concorde crashed in 2000, it came within 30 feet of hitting a plane carrying the French president
g4v4 TIL Coca Cola was invented by morphine addicted Confederate Colonel John Pemberton as a morphine substitute and its original ingredients include coca leaves which is the raw material for manufacture of cocaine.