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TIL there was debate about World Trade Center land ownership/control when it came time to rebuild (See 3:30)

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d89W8 TIL that according to legend that many used to believe was fact, the founder and first King of Britain was Brutus of Troy, a descendant of a hero from the Trojan War, and he also founded Troia Nova or New Troy in what is today London. He was also supposedly the ancestor of King Arthur.
YpR1P TIL A man spent 12 years in a coma but was completely aware and awake the entire time.
g9eL TIL that in 1998 a US military jet cut the cables of a cable car in Italy killing 20 people. No one was convicted. [Possibly NSFW]
QJrvL TIL that classic rock musician Todd Rundgren formed a band in Philly in the late-60’s called Nazz that was moderately successful, while at the same time in Phoenix another band formed calling themselves Nazz also, but after releasing one single they moved to LA and renamed themselves Alice Cooper
xVA95 TIL the US military's Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) can project speech narrowly enough to be heard by a single person 300m away. American soldiers in Iraq used the device to speak directly to specific insurgents, claiming to be the voice of God and ordering their surrender