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TIL About The Pinto Memo, where Ford weighed the cost of retrofitting cars to be safe vs the cost of payouts for injuries and deaths, it was cheaper to "Let Them Burn" so two years later the car model was launched

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YJLA TIL No US president was an only child
0dGbv TIL that certain patterns and correlations in eye-tracking data may reveal the user’s sex, age, ethnicity, personality traits, drug-consumption habits, emotions, fears, skills, interests, sexual preferences, and physical and mental health.
newEG TIL about Nicolas Antoine, who attempted to convert to Judaism in the 1620s and then became a Calvinist pastor in the Canton of Geneva while secretly practising the Jewish worship. He ended up being burned at the stake for heresy on 1632
WkY0d TIL The story that the Titanic engineers remained inside the ship till the end to keep the electricity running didn’t actually happen
O0aR TIL Ethiopia donated $5000 to earthquake victims in Mexico because Mexico supported Ethiopia when Italy invaded in 1935