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TIL the September 11 terror attacks on the WTC released a dust cloud of toxic asbestos fibers across Manhattan, with an estimated 410,000 people exposed. It is believed lung cancer and mesothelioma cases in the city will reach a peak in the year 2041 (four decades after 9/11)

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1VYD TIL before it was burnt down in 48 BC by Julius Caeser, the Library of Alexandria is thought to have had a working steam engine.
WkY7B TIL Texas abolished last meal requests after a prisoner ordered 2 chicken-fried steaks, a triple cheeseburger, a beef & cheese omelet , a pound of barbecued meat, a half loaf of bread, 3 fajitas, a meat-lover’s pizza, fried okra, a pint of Blue Bell, and peanut-butter fudge, and then did not eat it.
7rwrr TIL the first fully digital film was The Rescuers Down Under
aW1N TIL that while shooting Pirates XXX on a ship in FL, the ship owner was told the movie was a “Disney film for families.”
NXpnQ TIL that Bose is majority owned by MIT