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TIL the only civilian aircraft authorized to fly in and around New York City on September 12, 2001 was a single engine Cessna Skyhawk, tail number N9344L, used to perform aerial photography of the area.

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nN7Y TIL there was already an attempt to build a Channel Tunnel in 1880. The tunnel still exists
BgZMk TIL about Dr. Eugene Lazowski, a Polish physician who rescued 8,000 Jewish individuals during World War 2 by ingeniously fabricating a false typhus outbreak in Stalowa Wola, a Polish city under Nazi occupation.
4Xk9o TIL that during apartheid, the South African Chemical & Biological weapons program differed in its aims from the programs of many countries in that a major focus of the South African program was to develop non-lethal agents to help suppress internal dissent.
kOGmm TIL before Cliven Bundy went to prison for his armed standoff against the government, he was partially responsible for keeping alive a strain of ancient crookneck watermelon who's seeds were found hidden in a cave in Arizona in the 1920s.
BRak TIL that Brazil participated in WW2, the only independent South American country to do so. The 25,000-troop Brazilian Expeditionary Force worked alongside the Allies, and managed to take 20,573 Axis prisoners, consisting of two generals, 892 officers and 19,679 other ranks.