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TIL that after Steve Irwin’s death, his fans began cutting the tails off stingrays in revenge attacks

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mwpO TIL Israel has a long history of passing along secret US Military technology to China.
m1jwM TIL twice the amount of time has passed between the release of Back to the Future and today (39yrs) as between Back to the Future and the Vietnam War protests with Dr. MLK, Jr., Ginsberg, and hippies (18yrs).
P1Oyw TIL only 14% of Americans regularly wore seatbelts in the 80's and laws were considered violations of freedom. To regulate seatbelts, the Reagan administration told automakers to install airbags unless they persuaded 2/3 of states to pass seatbelt laws. New seatbelt laws were often weak, anyway.
9YrnD TIL that the California DMV only allows the number "69" on your vanity license plate if your car was built in 1969.
VBRk0 TIL the 1970s rock band Bay City Rollers, known for the pop hit "Saturday Night", was a Scottish band that wanted an American name, so they brainstormed by throwing darts at a US map. They declined Arkansas from the first dart, but the second dart landed on Bay City, Michigan.