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TIL mandated seatbelt interlock systems, requiring the driver to first be seated and then buckle up before the car was able to start, decreased seatbelt usage as drivers disabled the system in the early 70s in the US

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D1BQg TIL that Die Hard is based on a book called "Nothing Lasts Forever" by Roderick Thorpe and that Die Hard 2 is based on a book called "58 Minutes" by Walter Wager. Despite the films being directly related, neither book is connected. They were written by two different authors, almost a decade apart.
EgEa7 TIL how one of just two XB-70 supersonic bomber prototypes was lost during a 1966 photo-op for GE
d7GQ TIL That Victoria Sponge Cake was actually named after Queen Victoria and contains extra fat.
p8p8e TIL In 2015, Neil Moore, a prisoner serving time for a $2.7 million fraud conviction, walked out the front gate of a high security prison by forging his own release papers.
JYVrV TIL that many US military officials, even war hawks such as Douglas MacArthur and several fleet admirals, opposed the usage of atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki as unnecessary and cruel. Curtis LeMay even went as far as to say "The atomic bomb had nothing to do with the end of the war at all."