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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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Z8gmY TIL The climate anomaly between 535–536 caused a global drop in temperature, resulting in a long and devastating winter in Scandinavia. Some scientists believe that this winter became the influence to the "Fimbulwinter" that's the prelude the end of the world in Ragnarök.
d8o0K TIL about pinball prohibition, pinball was banned in most major cities from the early 1940s to the mid 1970s because it was considered a game of chance and therefore gambling.
DZOg TIL Maj. Iván Castro is the only active duty blind officer serving in the US Army Special Forces. Castro lost his eyesight in 2006 in Iraq when a mortar round severely wounded him. After being told he’d never see again, he learned to train and serve without sight. He was promoted Captain in 2008.
enQL TIL after the Battle of Hastings, King Harold’s body was identified by the tattoo above his heart which read ‘Edith and England’
9YlZp TIL of Transhumanism,an international movement that believes humans are currently in a transition state, and that future biotechnologies will allow us to drastically enhance our physical and cognitive capabilities and to stop biological aging, therefore essentially making us immortal or "transhuman"