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TIL Eight "Sea Shepherd" activists were arrested in 1979 for violating the Seal Protection Act, for spraying a thousand seal pups with permanent red dye; rendering their pelts useless for hunters.

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KmN6 TIL that Volvo invented most important safety device ‘Three point seat belt’. Volvo could have netted a fortune on patents alone but gave free license to all other auto manufacturers to use it as free life saving tool than something to profit from.
oL1r TIL John Wayne Gacy’s former attorney, Sam Amirante, who heard Gacy’s original confession to over 30 murders, later went on to author the Missing Child Recovery Act of 1984 which removed the 72-hour waiting period to begin the search for a missing child.
WEl4 TIL NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building is so huge it needs 10,000 tons of AC equipment to prevent rain clouds from forming inside on humid days.
vJ88 TIL that Pharrell Williams requires a framed picture of Carl Sagan in his dressing room
JYOa8 TIL the Suicide Rates per Capita in the infamous Foxconn factories that produce Iphones are lower than all 50 US states