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TIL Limp Bizkit was the last band to play on top of the World Trade Center in September 2000.

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7xXp TIL Kodak discovered the US was testing atomic bombs because the corn husks used for packing material were fogging film because they had been exposed to radiation.
8Dx8 TIL while penniless and dying, Ulysses S Grant wrote a book of memoirs so his wife could live off of the royalties. Mark Twain heard the best royalty offer was 10% and immediately offered Grant 75%. Grant’s book, was a critical and commercial success giving his wife about $450,000 in royalties.
5YvR8 TIL about Supreme Court Judge Joseph Force Crater, who became the "missingest man in New York," when he disappeared on the streets of Manhattan in 1930. On the day he destroyed several documents, shifted portfolios to his 5th Ave apartment and withdrew $5000. He was declared legally dead in 1939.
yVkve TIL about the Amiriyah shelter bombing an aerial bombing attack that killed between 400-1,500 civilians by the U.S. Air Force
p8blZ TIL That up to 62% of Icelanders believe in Elves