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1rDP TIL the Google Driver-less Car has only encountered two accidents. The first it was rear ended at a stop sign, and the second was when a human was behind the wheel.
mxQAP TIL A village in India changed its name to snapdeal.com nagar to express their gratitude to a e commerce company for installing hand pumps in their village
M7gA8 TIL that 'The Omega Man' (1971) has among the first interracial kisses in film, between Charlton Heston and Rosalind Cash. When Whoopi Goldberg asked Heston about the kiss in 1992 on her talk show, Heston leaned in and kissed a pleasantly surprised Goldberg.
9wy7p TIL of safety razor slots. In the 1930s-50s some home bathrooms had slots built into their walls where people would insert used razor blades. Future renovations have found walls packed with hundreds of blades.
YpAVP TIL The modern conspiracy - The Illuminati, was an art project/protest in the late 60's by a political theorist and a staffer at Playboy to show the public how ridiculous and disempowering it was to think a group of secretive people controlled the world.