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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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65dZ TIL that on July 2, 2013 the United States repealed a law that prohibited the government from paying to distribute propaganda.
5VMvn TIL: Imigrants are less likely to commit crimes in the United States. It has been this way for over 100 years.
D1P5g TIL 52 days before his death Elvis Presley while stopped at a red light saw two men beating a teenager lying on the ground and quickly got out of his car and into a karate pose and said "I'll take you two on" The fight stopped instantly and the stunned men shook his hand.
ZKwD TIL that it costs a mobile carrier approximately one thousandth of a penny to send one text message, if not less.
Bgy7K Today I learned that Hans Christian Andersen based his story "The Emperor's New Clothes" on a folk tale about a king who is tricked by swindlers who claim to have made clothes that can't be seen by any man who isn't the son of the king's presumed father.