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TIL Volvo invented 3-point seatbelt and gave it away to save lives

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ADZJw TIL that Standing Bear (c. 1829 – 1908) was a Ponca Native American chief, who successfully argued in U.S. District Court in 1879 in Omaha that Native Americans are "persons within the meaning of the law" and have the right of habeas corpus.
LQvGZ TIL Asia and Australia are separated by a deep-water channel located in Indonesia called Wallace Line that kept the flora and fauna of Sahul Shelf (East Indonesia/Australia) separated from those of Sunda Shelf (West Indonesia/Asia)
jNeJv TIL a blood donor will lose around 650 calories by donating 1 pint of blood. That 1 pint of blood could save up to 3 lives.
APLd TIL the first country to send a man-made object into space was Nazi Germany in 3 October 1942
DQ9Ve TIL medical scholars diagnosed Gollum from The Lord of the Rings with multiple personality disorder, schizoid personality disorder, dissociative identity disorder, and PTSD.