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TIL that James Woods reported and identified 2 of the 9/11 terrorists a month before the event when they performed a practice run.

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Y7DGG TIL Bruce's Springsteen's 13th album Devils and Dust releases in 2005 was his first and only album to have a parental advisory label. The label was used for the "adult imagery" in the song Reno where the character in the song visits a sex worker.
BgxkD TIL in 2007, North Korea accused Finland of human rights violations after tear gas was used on North Korean diplomats who refused to cooperate with Finnish customs officials on a train from Moscow to Helsinki.
780GM TIL 90s Pauly Shore film Biodome was based on a real project called Biosphere 2, which was way more interesting than the movie
jNW0M TIL Judith Love Cohen, who helped create the Abort-Guidance System which rescued the Apollo 13 astronauts, went to work on the day she was in labor. She took a printout of a problem she was working on to the hospital. She called her boss and said she finished the problem and gave birth to Jack Black
6EL68 TIL a puppy of Soviet space dog Strelka, the first animal to safely return from orbit, was given to president Kennedy by Khrushchev. The puppy grew up and became the mate of JFK's dog Charlie. The cold war couple went on to have 4 pups themselves, dubbed the "Pupniks".