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TIL Nobel winner in Chemistry John Howard Northrop, known for isolating and crystallizing the first bacteriophage, committed suicide

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ZppnB TIL mandated seatbelt interlock systems, requiring the driver to first be seated and then buckle up before the car was able to start, decreased seatbelt usage as drivers disabled the system in the early 70s in the US
b6ZR4 TIL of the Order of Malta Passport. It's the rarest passport in the world and is only issued to a few hundred people.
p6pZ TIL: The leader of the Church of Scientology served as Tom Cruise’s best man at his wedding and his own wife disappeared in 2007 after she “filled several job vacancies without her husband’s permission”.
4X1Ma TIL that in 2014, actor William Hurt and a film crew shot a scene on a railroad trestle. The production team lied about getting permission to film on the tracks, and a train came mid-scene, giving the cast and crew less than a minute to evacuate. One crew member died and many were injured.
rNBmd TIL that 70s / 80s music star Plastic Bertrand wasn’t actually the singer for his first 4 albums, and the public had no idea for 30 years. He only received .5% of the royalties for “his” international hit, ‘Ça Plane Pour Moi”, with the majority likely going to the songs actual singer, Lou Deprijck.