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TIL of a man in south India who upon realizing that his wife use a rag during her periods made a cheap easy-to-use affordable machine to produce sanitary pads.

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AD5Dx TIL, Whiplash (2014), was shot in 19 days, with a schedule of 14 hours of filming per day. Also, Chazelle (Director) was involved in a serious car accident in the third week of shooting and was hospitalized with possible concussion, but he returned to set the next day to finish the film on time.
1a08d TIL that details from Ukrainian-Canadian artist William Kurelek’s painting, The Maze, were used as the cover art for Van Halen’s Fair Warning album.
Jnj8 TIL that the original script for Good Will Hunting contained a scene in which Robin Williams gives Stellan Skarsgård a blowjob. This was because Damon and Affleck knew studio execs never read scripts and the scene wasn’t mentioned until Harvey Weinstein read it thinking it was hilarious
KmN6 TIL that Volvo invented most important safety device ‘Three point seat belt’. Volvo could have netted a fortune on patents alone but gave free license to all other auto manufacturers to use it as free life saving tool than something to profit from.
4XGoJ TIL early sections of San Francisco were built upon ships abandoned by prospectors during the California Gold Rush. Many were intentionally run aground to become bars and hotels. Now, hundreds of wooden ships lay beneath the city streets and a portion of their subway goes through the hull of one.