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TIL 9/11 responders are dying from inhalation of ground zero waste, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will not let the Zadroga Act pass.

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ep7r5 TIL in 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed in the Andes Mountain east of Chile. The survivors had to resort to cannibalism to survive in freezing cold weather. Rescue arrived after two months when two survivors climbed a 4650-meter mountain peak and hiked 61 km to seek help.
4XDNw TIL Harry Truman was the only president who Served in World war 1
GADjg TIL a certain type of sherry wine can have a sugar content greater than 450g/L, over 4x that of Coca-Cola
MeEp0 TIL Leonardo Da Vinci was Ambidextrous. He could write, draw & paint with both hands simultaneously, resulting in a ‘Mirror Script’. Some Historians believe this was to hide his scientific ideas from the powerful Roman Catholic Church, or simply to prevent smudging.
0wrW1 TIL that a death row inmate Troy Leon Gregg escaped prison just to be beaten to death in a bar fight the same night