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TIL that in France, Germany, and Switzerland, it is illegal to deny that the holocaust happened

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4X786 TIL the planes that struck the World Trade Center Twin Towers weighed 100% more, carried 100% more fuel, and flew 100% faster than the plane whose impact the buildings were designed to withstand, a Boeing 707 airliner flying at landing approach speeds.
Egopx TIL that none of the people who were filmed or photographed falling from the Twin Towers on 9/11 have ever been officially identified. The collapse of the towers before their remains were removed from the scene made it impossible to identify them through DNA analysis.
5YPXR TIL: That in 2014, the US Army sent 14,000 conscription letters to men born in the 1800s because of a Y2K-like bug.
D1Omr TIL In 1990, Rick James sued MC Hammer for copyright when Hammer sampled his song “Super Freak” in Hammer’s hit “Can’t Touch This” without permission. They agreed to settle out of court and Hammer credited James as a co-composer, James won his first and only Grammy from “Can’t Touch This”.
gkoy TIL that, following the Bloody Sunday massacre in Northern Ireland, the British home secretary, Reginald Maudling, told the House of Commons that British paratroopers had killed 13 civilians in self-defense. Bernadette McAliskey, a Northern Irish MP, walked across the floor and slapped his face.