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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.

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p87MO TIL That in 1978 a pilot disappeared during a UFO encounter. His final transmission was, "That strange aircraft is hovering on top of me again...it's not an aircraft
78EDX TIL that the Guinness World Record for the longest time a person has held their breath underwater is 24 min 37.36 seconds.
4kpoN TIL severed fingertips can sometimes regenerate, but mostly this only occurs for kids and only if some fingernail remains.
Oog54 TIL Al Capone came up with the idea of expiration dates on milk bottles while trying to find a legal way to fund his grand lifestyle once the prohibition era was over.
NbaE TIL that Mayim Bialik (Amy Fowler from The Big Bang Theory) has a PhD in Neuroscience but is also Anti-Vaccine