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TIL In-N-Out invented the fast food drive-thru when co-founder Harry Snyder invented a two-way speaker box in 1948

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7rMOx TIL that Volvo gave away the 1962 patent for their revolutionary three-point seat belt for free, in order to save lives.
BrPZL TIL of Ida Wood, who lived 24 years with her sister in a hotel room in NYC without leaving the room and any contact to the outside world
e0RwD TIL that the first guy to claim that AIDS wasn't caused by HIV (and instead the victims' lifestyles) died of AIDS.
pY7re TIL The founder of France's criminal investigative agency, Eugène François Vidocq, was an escaped convict. Vidocq's superiors would repeatedly receive messages from jails demanding Vidocq's arrest, they were ignored and ultimately Vidocq received a pardon from King Louis XVIII.
04rA TIL Roald Dahl, author of ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ had all of his teeth pulled out when he was 21, because he thought they were more trouble than they were worth.