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TIL 98% of passengers involved in vehicle crashes in Dubai were not wearing seat belts

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9YEy7 TIL about Japan's Fu-Go bomb project, in which they launched balloon-borne bombs from Japan during WWII, hoping they would explode in the US and cause confusion and terror. It was a total failure except one case where some kids found one and died.
kmrm TIL: In 1973, a man tried to rob a bank in Kenora Ontario with dynamite strapped to his chest. A police sniper shot him, detonating the explosives and blowing him up. He has never been identified.
v9a8 TIL Robert Kennedy was assassinated during the exact same week that the Rolling Stones were recording ‘Sympathy for the Devil.’ The original lyrics were “I shouted out 'Who killed Kennedy?’” but Jagger changed it to “I shouted out 'Who killed the Kennedys?’”
ZVZv TIL the website Walt Jr. created in ‘Breaking Bad’ is a real website with a button to donate to the National Cancer Coalition.
v1YL7 TIL "Huh" is a "Universal Word" And Means the Same Thing in Every Language Around The World