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TIL Composer Richard Wagner lived in Villa Wesendonck, an elegant neoclassical mansion in Zurich. Wagner's house later became the Rietberg Museum, the only gallery in Switzerland to concentrate on non-European cultures

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nWJAb TIL: In 1945 a B-25 bomber crashed into the Empire State Building due to fog and pilot error. 14 people died, and 24 were injured. One of those injured in the incident, Betty Lou Oliver, was placed in a damaged elevator which fell 75 stories. Air trapped in the shaft slowed her fall, and she lived.
prZN TIL that, in 1959, Volvo invented the 3-point seat belt, then gave free license to all other car manufacturers to use it.
ngmd TIL in 2012, a man sacrificed his kidney in order to save his younger sister but his efforts ended in vain when a nurse mistakenly disposed the donated organ. Despite the success of the kidney transplant 3 months later, the family sued the hospital for their negligence.
KOQXG TIL: The population can hold a General Strike where all laborers stop working to show a complete lack of confidence in the government.
nDVG TIL nearly 40% of the medical advice given on the Dr. Oz show has no scientific evidence backing it up.