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TIL Neil Degrasse Tyson was an eye-witness to 9/11, he wrote a letter describing his horrifying experience.

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O1dR TIL of the last Kauaʻi ʻōʻō bird, who was recorded singing a mating call to a female that would never come. It died in 1987.
P1PZO TIL That Chuck E. Cheese Secretly Sold Pizzas on Delivery Apps During the Pandemic Under the Name “Pasqually Pizza”
9wep TIL that when Czar Dmitri II of Russia was found to be a Polish impostor, he was shot and cremated. His ashes were promptly shoved in a cannon and fired in the direction of Poland.
PYwVJ TIL rust can kill you. Rusting metal consumes oxygen and can lead to death especially in confined spaces like holds of ships. In 2007, three people suffocated one after the other in the anchor locker of a vessel because rust had consume all the oxygen.
0d1gL TIL unlike other ex-British parliaments, the ruling party of Newfoundland's MPs sit to the left of the Speaker rather than the right - a tradition dating to the 1850s when the heaters were located on that side