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TIL that the modern three-point safety belt was perfected by Volvo engineer Nils Bohlin in 1959 – and its patent given for free to the world. The invention has been credited with saving at least a million lives worldwide.

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ADPdn TIL Jon Lovitz smashed Any Dick's head into a bar top at the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles
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