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TIL: 2 F16 pilots went on a suicide mission to stop Flight 93 on 9/11.

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16adW TIL That Houston Texas is the only large city to have no zoning laws which means you can build a bar next to a school or a shooting range next to a gas station etc
wLWjE TIL that in 1964, during the height of Beatlemania, the Beatles landed in Sydney and a woman ran across the airport tarmac and threw her intellectually disabled young child at Paul McCartney shouting, "Catch him, Paul!" McCartney caught him, gave her son back to her and she declared "He's better!"
vjKL TIL NC banned the use of scientific predictions of sea-level rise in determining coastal policies
OaNL TIL these little bumps are actually very normal, common and harmless and they’re called “Fordyce’s spot.” Link is possibly NSFW.
rkZ1 TIL that most of the time, we find things truthful if told in rhyme. This could be due to “the Keats heuristic,” where things are preferred when they seem artistic.