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TIL that American car seats are illegal to use in most of the rest of the world due to the addition of the chest clip

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VBO8Q TIL “Don’t Mess with Texas” was created as part of a marketing campaign aimed at 16-24 yr old males to stop throwing their trash all over Texas.
R5vV6 TIL of a Indian Civil servant and politician who had 20 University degrees along with Being a MD medicine, Master of laws and MBA. He for a certain period was a minister holding 14 portfolios.
4XKXg TIL that film director Akira Kurosawa hired expert archers to shoot real arrows at Toshiro Mifune while he dodged them in choreographed movements. Mifune’s visible terror is quite real.
6j6Q TIL that Gangnam Style was so viral and gathered views so quickly, YouTube had to change the view count system to prevent a stack overflow as the original 32-bit integer system tops out at ~2.14 billion.
5GL8 TIL in 2013 the Chinese government hacked Google. While many initially believed the hack was targeting the email accounts of activists, it actually targeted and compromised Google’s internal warrant tracking system, letting the Chinese know which of their operatives were being monitored.