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TIL that while only 8.4% of Americans don't wear seat belts, about 50% of those killed in car crashes were not buckled.

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4k6dw TIL that the X-Patents were patents issued from July of 1790 to July of 1836, all of which were destroyed in a fire. No copies were kept at the time, leaving only the inventors’ copies to reconstruct the entire collection
oBQmA TIL the first recorded instance of human flight is of a Chinese prince named Yuan Huangtou, who was forced to participate in an experiment in which he was strapped to a kite and flown off a tower.
xVaED TIL that in Japan, all 9 IKEA stores are exactly 430,000 square feet.
v1Pl7 TIL about the 1936 soviet movie 'Circus.' A single white mother with a black child flees racism in America & follows the circus to Russia. At its climax, the cast sings to her baby in every language of the USSR.
x6AQ5 TIL in 2022 when the pilot of a single-engine Cessna became incapacitated, an air traffic controller (who was also a certified flight instructor) helped a passenger on that plane who had no flying experience (but who had watched pilots before) successfully pilot the aircraft for 8 miles & land it.