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TIL Al-Qaida originally planned for nuclear power plants to be the target for the 9/11 attacks but changed targets fearing that it “might get out of hand”

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YZ9G TIL Korean man Okhwan Yoon left a profitable business to bicycle the world to support world peace. Over 9 years he has biked across 192 countries on six continents and has survived 6 car accidents, malaria, extreme temperatures, robbery, and kidnapping.
DQLwr TIL 145 Polish pilots, representing some five percent of Fighter Command’s overall strength, claimed 203 German aircraft for the loss of 29 of their number killed in the Battle of Britain. This amounts to 15 percent of the Command’s total score
l7ExB TIL there is a perfect condition German 88mm from WW2 abandoned on an Adriatic Island
e0Lak TIL about Cat Island. The cats were originally introduced to combat rodents on fishing boats, but remained on the island and reproduced in large numbers, currently outnumbering humans 36:1
54P9 TIL The man standing behind George Washington and holding the American flag in the famous painting “Washington Crossing the Delaware” is 18-year-old officer and future president James Monroe.