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TIL in 2018, engineers with the New Jersey Department of Transportation had to reverse-engineer a steel bridge for a rehabilitation project, because the files with the original plans were destroyed in the collapse of the World Trade Center on 9/11.

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4XDmN TIL While being in exclusivity arrangement with Argonaut studios, Nintendo rejected 2 games by Argonaut (Yoshi 3D game prototype and Starfox 2) then made Mario 64 and Starfox 64 based on those games ideas and code without giving credit or a penny to Argonaut, then ended all agreements with them.
K5nE TIL that james earl jones once traveled across the us and used his legendary darth vader voice to talk to truck drivers on his cb radio .
1AZ8 TIL in 1990 a British Airways 747 landed in a deserted Kuwait airport on a stop-over as Iraq invaded. Its 385 passengers were captured, some of whom were subjected to mock executions and rape, and dispersed to military sites to be used as human shields. The last hostages were freed in December 1991.
awLBy TIL that Ted Kaczynski, aka The Unabomber, became convinced while a graduate student that he should get a sex-change operation