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TIL the largest safety recall in US history occurred because of defective Takata airbags that can deploy explosively and have killed at least 27 people & injured over 400. Overall, 67 million airbags in 42 million vehicles from 34 brands (mostly model years 2002-2015) have been recalled in the US.

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oRMwW TIL in 1977, musician Jimmy Buffett was driving to Key West on the Seven Mile Bridge when the bridge got stuck in the open position causing a 3-hour delay to fix it. To kill time, he wrote the song "Margaritaville" while sitting on the hood of his car.
BrX5x TIL That the world's oldest continuously running business is a hot springs hotel in Japan that's run since 705 A.D.
0bLA TIL despite having DNA evidence of the suspect, German police could not prosecute a $6.8M jewel heist because the DNA belonged to identical twins, and there was no evidence to prove which one of them was the culprit.
5YPMP TIL of Loulis, a chimp who learned to communicate trought sign languange, but he wasn't taught by humans: he learned the signs from his adoptive mother, Washoe, the first chimp to ever learn sign languange
VMNB0 TIL that in ancient Egypt, licorice was used as medicine