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TIL Michael Jackson had a meeting in the World Trade Center the morning of 9/11, but missed it because he overslept.

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nBMo TIL that in Eve Online a player set up an in-game bank that operated legitimately for several months. The bank’s founder then stole nearly 790 billion units of in-game currency, nearly $170,000 in real world dollars. This was all perfectly legal.
M7DO8 TIL that Tokyo has roughly the same population as Canada
ADB44 TIL the coelacanth, a prehistoric lobed-finned fish, was believed to have become extinct in the Late Cretaceous Era 66 millions years ago, until they were rediscovered extant off the coast of South Africa in 1938.
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