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Today I Learned that the Company Volvo invented seatbelts but decided not to patent them

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Jmdv TIL London only reached its pre-WW2 population level in January, 2015.
EbNx TIL that the largest infiltration of the U.S. Goverment involved breaches into 136 federal agencies, foreign embassies and consulates, as well as private organizations. The culprits: the Church of Scientology.
Yp9Qx TIL up until 2004 it was illegal to have a divorce in Chile
Bd0r TIL that Ronald Reagan used to give acorns he collected from Camp David to the squirrels outside the Oval Office. On his last day in office, mindful of new President Bush’s dog, he left the oval office for the last time, gave the squirrels acorns and set down a note that read “beware of the dog”
M80b TIL in 1959, a group attempting to find the path used by Hannibal’s army to cross the Alps and invade Roman Italy successfully traversed the Alps from France to Italy with an 11yr old former circus elephant named Jumbo.