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TIL vehicle recalls have become more common in the United States over the last two decades

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45w5 TIL Winfield Scott served in the War of 1812, and the Civil War. Roughly equivalent to someone serving in both WWI and Vietnam.
D4EV TIL that the first entirely computer generated movie sequence in cinema history was the Genesis Device demonstration video in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. The studio that made the scene would later become Pixar.
ne689 til: The guy who invented the gas mask (respirator) died in a balloon accident at the age of 31. As a result his soon to be wife killed herself
y648 TIL that due to waste-water injections from fracking, Oklahoma has gone from an average of about 3 earthquakes a year in the 1970’s to having roughly 900 earthquakes in 2015.
nWejB TIL in school I read about Nellie Bly, a female journalist in the late 1800s who got herself committed to an insane asylum to report on the conditions. She also once jumped off a ferry so she could report on the efficiency of the rescue crew!