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TIL that most of the 9/11 hijackers had no idea that they were on a suicide mission. Evidence shows that the majority likely believed that they were taking the planes hostage as a means of leveraging the release of Al-Qaeda prisoners. Only the men trained to fly the planes knew the truth.

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M7bl0 TIL - Limes turn Yellow when fully ripe, but turn bitter so we eat them unripe when still Green
BrWJx Til that on a hill overlooking the ocean in Otsuchi Town in northeastern Japan is a phone booth known as the "Telephone of the Wind". It is connected to nowhere, but people come to "call" family members lost during the tsunami of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.
oBQyo TIL Button Batteries are not a problem because of the choking hazard, they will burn through a person's stomach.
78LMb TIL that each of your fingers don’t contain any muscle. All the muscles that control finger motion are located in the hand and forearm.
Z8nnp TIL prehistoric evidence of burial has been found in both Homo heidelbergensis and Homo neanderthalensis, suggesting that the evolutionary roots of spirituality and belief in the afterlife pre-date modern humans. The earliest evidence of human burial has been dated to 100,000 years ago.