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TIL that, on 9/11, all 358 workers of insurance company Marsh McLennan's WTC offices died. Their WTC offices (floors 93 to 100 of the North Tower) were directly by AMERICAN 11, and survivors of the blast became stranded, since the elevators and stairways were destroyed by the impact of the aircraft.

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1Qn7 TIL The adoption of the E-ZPass, a highway toll transponder, in the northeast United States resulted in an interesting health benefit, about a 10% drop in preterm infant birth and low birth weight in areas near tollbooths, due to lower traffic congestion.
ANrZl TIL for the past 56 years there’s been a prisoner rodeo that takes in Angola, LA.
RZ68 TIL that dung beetles can navigate when only the Milky Way or clusters of bright stars are visible and are the only insect known to orient itself by the galaxy!
WkrXd TIL Tolar, NM has the distinction of being the only town in the USA to be bombed out of existence in World War II. Not that it was a large town at the time. The explosion from an accidental railroad disaster left a crater about 20-feet deep and 60-feet wide - the town was pretty much obliterated.
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