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TIL that 7.5 tons of steel from the rubble of the World Trade Center was used in constructing the USS New York.

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7rk6X TIL that author Joe Hill, Stephen King's son, went ten years of successful independent writing before announcing his relationship to his dad - not even his agent knew.
Rxw6 TIL a 2011 Johns Hopkins study gave healthy adults a few sessions of Psilocybin (magic mushrooms). A year later, 94% of the individuals said the experiment was in their top 5 most meaningful experiences of their lives; 39% said it was the single most meaningful experience of their lives.
XEXK6 TIL That Benjamin Rush, A Founding Father and Physician Believed That Blackness Was "A Disease" And Was "Curable". He Co-Authored This Paper, Based On A Black Man Who Turned White. (He had Vitiligo)
jWVj TIL the first death row inmate exonerated by DNA evidence was wrongly convicted child murderer Kirk Bloodsworth in 1993. Ten years later, Bloodsworth discovered the actual killer had been incarcerated just one cell block beneath him
gweX TIL In 2004, the founder of Girls Gone Wild has forced at gunpoint to make a gay porn.