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TIL 15 of the 19 hijackers of 9/11 were citizens of Saudi Arabia; the others were from the United Arab Emirates (2), Egypt and Lebanon

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5yRp TIL 125 people where shot crossing the Berlin wall whereas an estimated 6000 people died trying to cross the Mexico-US border in the past 15 years.
epAyn TIL that people dug(bored) a 40,000 ft. deep hole that is also not deep at all. Despite a fairly narrow diameter of only 9” and penetrating less than 0.2% to the center of the Earth, it took 20 years.
grMe8 TIL that uterus transplantations are possible. For instance, in 2019 two births took place in Germany after a successful transplantation. The receiving women suffered from a syndrome called Müllerian agenesis and were born without a vaginal tract.
Mo0K TIL: The Canadian government staged a large-scale Nazi invasion of Winnipeg in 1942 to promote war bonds: citizens were arrested at random, armed “German” troops searched cars and buses, businesses were raided for supplies and Union flags were torn down and replaced with the flag of the Nazi Party.
oBBRW TIL that British woman Amy Dallamura was banned from being within 50 meters of the sea after she unsuccessfully tried to commit suicide by throwing herself into the ocean fifty times - costing emergency crews over £1m