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TIL The 1993 World Trade Center bombing was the result of an FBI sting operation. FBI agents secretly supplied informant Emad Salem with bomb making materials. Despite being assured by the FBI that the real bomb was replaced with a fake, the attack was successfully carried out.

9YOv6 TIL of Sir Douglas Mawson, an Australian who led an expedition to the south pole in 1912. He went on a 3-man sledding team. On the way back to the main base, his two teammates died and most of the equipment was lost. He continued the final 100 miles back alone and survived falling down a crevasse.
DQeyP TIL Daylight saving time was first proposed in 1895 by George Vernon Hudson, a New Zealand postal worker and amateur entomologist. Hudson thought that the extra daylight during the warmer months would give him more time to hunt insects after work
M7Q7W TIL Singapore was the first country to introduce an electronic toll collection scheme to manage traffic congestion by the way of road pricing in 1975. It has since been introduced in other cities in the world such as in London and Stockholm and has been proposed for New York City and San Francisco.
VMQBZ TIL that the maximum horsepower of one horse is 15 horsepower.
1la4 TIL that the concept of a zombie apocalypse is four thousand years old. In the heroic epic about him, Gilgamesh, the mythical king of Uruk spurned the advances of Ishtar, the goddess of fertility. She became enraged and threatened to “raise the dead who will outnumber the living and devour them.”