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TIL, The first recorded car accident occured in Ohio City in 1891. The driver was James William Lambert, he lost control of the vehicle because he hit a tree root and smashed into a hitching post.

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b477 TIL AT&T almost caused nuclear war. In 1961, the US lost contact with its early warning systems. Assuming the USSR had attacked, bombers were scrambled but recalled when contact was made with an EWS base. The phone blackout was caused by a faulty AT&T switch they had promised to replace.
VMnkQ TIL there has never been a substantiated claim that Walt Disney was anti-Semitic. In fact, a lot of Walt Disney's money was donated to Jewish charities, and the most influential people in his company were Jewish.
RO1l TIL of 15 year-old World War One Royal Navy officer Wenman Wykeham-Musgrave, having survived being torpedoed on three different ships within one hour, all of which sunk, swimming to each after abandonment of the last. Musgrave went on to survive the war and live a full life until 1989.
X0Z0D TIL that there was a portuguese man named Fernando Pessoa who had more than 70 personalities, some of these personalities spoke english instead of portuguese.
OoZEX TIL when King George V was near death in 1936, his doctor injected him with, "750mg of morphine and a gram of cocaine – enough to kill him twice over – in order to ease [his] suffering, and to have him expire in time for the printing presses of the Times, which rolled at midnight."