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TIL a nurse in Florida reported seeing the 9/11 hijackers in the hospital she worked at. She reported this to the FBI and was subsequently fired from her job.

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O4mY TIL in 1945 a group of Russian school children presented a US Ambassador with a carved US Seal as a gesture of friendship. It hung in his office for 7 years before discovering it contained a listening device.
e4Z4 TIL a Catholic bishop named Robert Grosseteste described the birth of the Universe in an explosion and the crystallization of matter to form stars and planets in a set of nested spheres around Earth in 1225 AD - 4 centuries before Newton proposed gravity and 7 centuries before the Big Bang theory.
wNO8 TIL in 1983, 50 corporations controlled most of the American media, including magazines, books, music, news feeds, newspapers, movies, radio and television. By 1992 that number had dropped by half. By 2000, six corporations had ownership of most media, and today five dominate the industry.
4MKN TIL after iced trees flattened her wood home, a woman in small-town Mississippi brought in a Boeing 727 to use as a house. It is anchored on the back end while the tip hangs out over a lake and features a Jacuzzi in the former cockpit
VrGB TIL The Unibomber sent an update for his Harvard reunion. He put prisoner under occupation and his eight life sentences under awards. The update was published in the official reunion book.