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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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4XGaX TIL It is estimated that 16 gorillas were killed during the Rwandan war, but the overall population increased from 320 to 355. Gorillas survived because they moved father up the mountains, away from violent humans and no faction wanted the bad publicity of being responsible for a gorilla death
VBND8 TIL that Charles Domery, an 18th-century Polish soldier, had such an extraordinary appetite that while imprisoned in England, he reportedly ate 174 cats in a single year, along with rats, candles, and even a severed human leg.
PYZdg TIL that after an intense 8 artillery week barrage, British troops on the first day of the Battle of the Somme were so sure of their victory that 4 platoons had a competition to see who could kick a soccer ball into the German trenches first. Nearly 20,000 British men were killed that day
KOwQ TIL the state of Missouri renamed a section of highway for a Jewish Rabbi after a neo-Nazi group won a court case to adopt that section of road.
j6yEM TIL about NH 96566-KN The First Computer Bug, a moth found in a computer, 1947