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TIL A college student wrote against seat belt laws, saying they are “intrusions on individual liberties” and that he won’t wear one. He died in a car crash, and his 2 passengers survived because they were wearing seat belts.

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jpVR TIL whales are hairy before they are born.
61lY TIL that the word “Welsh” doesn’t specifically refer to the Welsh people, but is an ancient Germanic word for foreigners. Germans used to use it to refer to Italy, and Swiss Germans still use it to refer to the Swiss French.
m1kVE TIL that American chemist Gilbert Lewis was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry every year from 1922 until 1946 but never won it. His death in 1946 may have been a suicide.
BrG4k TIL that the epidermis is composed of five layers - basal, spinous, granular, clear, and cornified. Skin cells follow a genetically programmed process of death in forming the cornified (outermost) layer.
AORl TIL a vietnamese ex-pat, that escaped before the fall of Saigon, went on to have over 125 patents. Including Bounce, Febreze and Downey Premium Care…