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TIL in 1956, the U.S. passed the Refrigerator Safety Act, which made it mandatory for all fridges to be magnetically sealed. This was due to the high amount of children who suffocated in latched refrigerators.

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Bgxmd TIL legend states that Reinhard Heydrich, high ranking Nazi, is said to have worn the Bohemian crown while overseeing occupied Czechoslovakia, an act which if done by a usurper is said to mean certain death within a year. Both Heydrich and Heydrich's firstborn son, Klaus, died within the year.
16rE8 TIL: A study on the history of bedbugs found that ancient humans received them intermittently due to nomadic lifestyle and they were considered pest and potion ingredients as cures for snake bites, malaria etc. Bed bugs were introduced to America by Europeans and recently there is a resurgence.
GDPG TIL Keanu Reeves has a private cancer foundation to help children’s hospitals and cancer research, but he does not attach his name to it. He also has spent over 5 million dollars to help his sister in her fight against leukemia.
lo891 TIL: It has been estimated that 80% of all Marriages in Human History have been between 1st and 2nd Cousins.
pYvvA TIL Apollo 11 flight controller Bill Moon was the first Asian American to work in NASA's Mission Control. Moon would go on to work on every manned space program before he retired after 37 years