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TIL the FAA manager who ordered all U.S. flights to be grounded on 9/11 was working his first day on the job that day.

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6Eowm Today I Learned that there's an event in Hawaii called Lahaina Noon, where the sun passes directly overhead.
9wKdm TIL in 2009 Burger King ran the "Whopper sacrifice" campaign, which gave a free whopper to anyone who deleted 10 friends on Facebook. Facebook suspended the program because Burger King was alerting people letting them know they'd been dropped for a sandwich.
4kkDR TIL about Crisis Apparition. A term used to explain when someone is contacted by a person they were close too, usually after death. During the after math of 9/11 many people claim to have been contacted by loved ones that died that day.
R5V74 TIL the next generation after Gen-Z is being called Generation Alpa
kJxPd TIL about the existence of snail kings, which have a left-handed shell-coiling. For common garden snails, researchers estimate the occurrence frequency of snail kings at 1:40,000 individuals.