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TIL that Ford knew about defects on their cars but estimated lawsuits would cost less than fixing the cars, provoking more than a thousand avoidable deaths.

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ja7Q TIL Edgar Allan Poe wrote a novel in which a group of shipwrecked survivors draw lots in which the loser will be eaten, the boy who lost was named Richard Parker. 50 years later an English ship sank & the survivors drew lots, the losers name was Richard Parker.
6Q5m TIL we’re now exposed to as much data in a single day as someone in the 15th century would be in their entire lifetime.
GYW7Q TIL Two weeks before the Castle Gate Mine disaster that killed 171 men, the Utah Fuel Company laid off many of the miners without dependents during a shortage of coal sales. As a result, 114 of the men killed in the disaster were married men and left behind 415 widows and fatherless children
06QA TIL that the Roman fertility deity, Priapus, was also a guardian god who threatened to violate trespassers with his large penis
E45x TIL that Dragon Ball Z is going to be 27 years old and a new movie that is considered a part of the canon is being released this year.