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TIL the first chairman of the 9/11 Commission was Henry Kissinger. One of the family members of the victims of 9/11 asked Kissinger if he “had any clients by the name of bin Laden.” Kissinger resigned soon after that.

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Oopy7 TIL in 2017, a 10-minute song of silence entitled "A a a a a Very Good Song" became one of the top selling songs on iTunes because it helped solve the problem of car stereos playing the first song from an iPhone playlist in alphabetical order, giving people enough time to pick a song.
WGoL TIL According to the Torah, Jews are supposed to kill any Amalekite they meet. There are no people from Amalek today.
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5VQ1k TIL that Windows has an emoji panel if you hit the window button + the period or semicolon button, which can add even complex emojis to text. (⌐■_■)