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TIL airbags weren't mandatory in US cars until 1998

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Zjev TIL that nine-banded armadillos consistently give birth to identical quadruplets. Only one egg is ovulated and then the embryo splits four ways.
5VPWB TIL that after the Sunshine Skyway Bridge was destroyed in a collision with a freighter, the replacement bridge was designed with protective bumpers to prevent it from happening again. When a ship collided with the new bridge in 1987, the bridge was unaffected but the vessel took on water and sank.
78gLM TIL about The Horseman's Word, a secret society of British horse owners who claimed to practise secret invocations that could give them magical control over horses and women. Initiates would brandish knotted horse-hair and read passages from the Bible backwards before "shaking hands with the devil"
Oopm1 TIL Volkswagen put out an electric car in 1984 called Golf citySTROMer. It had a range of 50 KM and a top speed of around 100 KM/h. Only 100 exemplars were ever produced until production ceased in 1985. Trivia: the word "strom" in German means "current".
Z816a TIL that Spanish scientists have developed a 3D bioprinter which can print sheets of functional human skin for use in research or even transplants