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TIL Volvo decided to release the patent for the three-point seatbelt because they believed the lives it was likely to save was more significant than profit

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Zy4B TIL Someone made a Jack Torrance twitter account, with over 1 million tweets saying the same thing
JLm TIL that early in Jim Carrey’s life, before he had become famous, both he and his family had to live in their Volkswagen van.
OoAdY TIL director Robert Rodriguez got the inspiration for making the movie Spy Kids 4D from watching Jessica Alba's baby do a poo.
D1gGV TIL in WWII, weather reports were censored to prevent enemy submarines from learning about conditions. A football game in Chicago was so covered in fog that the radio announcer couldn’t see the field, but afterwards he was officially thanked for never using the word “fog” or mentioning the weather.
AAWg TIL that the first fatal car accident occurred in 1896, when the victim was hit by a car moving at 4 mph (6.4km/h). The coroner reported: “I trust that this sort of nonsense will never happen again.”