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TIL Rick Rescorla saved nearly 2,700 Morgan Stanley employees on 9/11 due to safety and evacuation planning stemming from the 1993 WTC bombing

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4XLwa TIL that the current royal family of Sweden is descended from an ordinary French commoner who rose through the ranks to become a general under Napoleon and was then randomly selected to become the King of Sweden.
wN17 TIL the Hopi Nation boys cross country team has won 25 straight state titles using the same sacred training methods their ancestors have used for more than a thousand years in the exact same villages.
7ryLb TIL the International Democrat Union, an international alliance of centre-right and conservative political parties, of which the German CDU is a memeber, is chaired by Stephen Harper, former Prime Minister of Canada.
6pM7 TIL Charles Whitman (Texas Tower shooter) asked to have an autopsy after his death to see what caused him to kill. After the autopsy it was discovered that he had a tumor pressing on his brain, which could have been the reason for his shooting.
ANrNd TIL According to the Smithsonian, 7-Eleven was the first retailer in America to install self-serve beverage stations