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TIL Frank Zappa made a guest appearance on an early episode of Ren & Stimpy playing The Pope

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6EX1Y TIL Congress passed a law in 1973 that mandated safety features to prevent a car from starting unless the driver buckled their seatbelt; the technology was mostly effective, but was so unpopular with voters that Congress was pressured to repeal the law just one year later in 1974
kOlwd TIL Yoko Ono has more solo #1 singles in the US Dance charts than John Lennon has in the Pop/Rock category.
akQ9 TIL that from 1946 to 1948, nearly 700 Guatemalans were deliberately infected by American doctors to study the effects of venereal disease. The US didn’t formally acknowledge the study or apologize till 2010.
OoOj4 TIL that a device called a 'Teasmade' was popular in the 60s and 70s in the UK, an alarm clock which also made tea, ensuring it was ready upon waking up.
10NX TIL that a trained crow named Jimmy the Raven appeared in over 1,000 feature films between 1934 and 1954.