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TIL in the popular video game ‘deus ex’ released in the year 2000, it is missing the twin towers due to graphical limitations. The in-game explanation for this was that they were destroyed by a terrorist attack.

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YprY7 TIL Rod Stewart has been working on a model train set for over 30 years.
OGD1Y TIL the first tests for Kevlar in bulletproof vests was done on goats. After 24 hours, one died. The rest had non-life threatening wounds.
DQgDY TIL that Babe Ruth was thrown out attempting to steal second base for the final out of game 7 of the 1926 World Series when the Yankees were only down by 1 run.
oBk1r TIL train robber Elmer McCurdy's mummified corpse was used as decoration in carnivals during the 1920's and wasn't properly identified as real until 1976. It scared a young boy named Mark Taylor so greatly it stuck with him into adulthood, and inspired him to create He-Man's nemesis: Skeletor.
MvrB TIL the founder of Wendy’s, Dave Thomas went back to high school in 1993 to get his GED because he was worried that his success as a dropout might convince some teenagers to quit school.