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TIL The New York Times wrote an article about each individual September 11th victim.

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9w70Q TIL, The only letter not used in the Periodic Table is the letter J.
D11Op “At any given moment, there are 1,800 thunderstorms happening somewhere on Earth. This amounts to 16 million storms each year! We know the cloud conditions that produce lightning, but we cannot forecast the location or time of a lightning strike.”
xV5G5 TIL there is a word for the blob of toothpaste on your toothbrush, and that word is nurdle.
DQEvr TIL that there is a Maori clan made up of descendants of a Spaniard who emigrated in the 19th century.
D1xOJ TIL that electronics sniffing dogs are a real thing. They can even sniff out tiny microSD cards that are less than a millimeter thick.