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TIL Osama bin Laden's brothers own the Construction firm in charge of constructing the tallest building in the world.

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8wLX TIL that after the drummer of The Who passed out during a live performance in 1973, the lead singer asked if anyone could fill in. 19 year old Scot Halpin stepped up to the plate. They pulled him on stage and he finished the remaining 3 songs. He hadn’t played drums in over a year.
6ENJ7 TIL that terminally ill patients in the US may choose to be treated with experimental drugs only passing minimal testing, as covered by the "Right-to-try-Law".
X0x8 TIL the Ol’ Dirty Bastard from the Wu-Tang Clan was once arrested for stealing a $50 pair of shoes, even though he had close to $500 cash on him at the time.
OoOea TIL Alexander Hamilton didn’t believe in democracy, which he labeled an American “disease.” He fought—with military force—any model of organizing the American political economy that might promote egalitarian politics. He was an authoritarian, and proud of it.
oRnkY TIL that the first Tay Bridge collapsed in a winter gale in December 1879, just nineteen months after opening, plunging a passenger train into the Firth of Tay and killing all 75 people on board