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TIL The main shareholder in the firm that owns the Carrara quarries in Italy is the bin Laden family, which means the marble used in the Freedom Tower is quarried by the family of Osama bin-Laden, who engineered the destruction of the Twin Towers that previously stood on the same site on 9/11.

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X5gk TIL self-taught naturalist Ray Stanford shocked paleontologists by routinely finding hundreds of dinosaur prints in suburban Washington DC where only a handful had been discovered before. He has a unique ability to recognize patterns and abnormalities in rock. He also claims seeing UFOs in clouds.
grXQ7 TIL quinoa, sunflowers, acai, avocado, chili peppers, papaya, passionfruit, bell pepper, pineapple, squash/pumpkin, pecan, vanilla, allspice, chocolate, kidney/green/lima bean, peanut, cassava, sweet potato, potato, agave, tobacco, sassafras (root beer), and maple syrup are all Native American foods
5VnkP TIL about Volcanoville, California which got its name from miners' mistaken belief that a nearby mountain was an extinct volcano.
eg9J TIL Roger Ebert said the 2004 film National Treasure was “so silly that the Monty Python version could use the same screenplay, line for line.”
Wr9L TIL The Lord of The Rings trilogy was nominated for 800 awards for the entire series and won 475 of them, making the movies the most awarded film series in cinematic history.