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TIL Astronaut Frank Culbertson was the only American in space on 9/11/01, where he witnessed the damage to the World Trade Center and the Pentagon from a completely unique vantage point.

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epP5k TIL about the Returning soldier effect: a phenomenon which suggests that more boys are born during and immediately after wars.
BjpW TIL hog-morse happened when rookie telegraph users made timing errors. One alleged case concerns the similarity of “L” and “T”. A customer sent a request for “undressed staves (wood)” to a Virginia firm. Due to hog-morse, “slaves” was sent instead. The firm reminded the sender that slavery was over.
X0e7R TIL that in the 1970s and 1980s more than 4,600 hemophiliacs contracted HIV or hepatitis C after being infected by contaminated blood-clotting products.
b99r7 TIL Davy Crockett voted against the Indian Removal Act
Meeom TIL musician Ice-T is the frontman of a metal band called Body Count.