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TIL popcorn used to be used as breakfast cereal

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JY8rj TIL: That during the design process of the World Trade Center, engineers had considered and done an analysis of a scenario where a jet airliner impacted a tower.
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R694 TIL in 1846, Albert Tirrell became the first to successfully use sleepwalking as a defense for murder and arson in the United States.
XEDeE TIL of William Kamkwamba, who at the age of 15 taught himself how to build windmills out of junk to provide his family electricity, and later to pump water for his community that was suffering from a huge drought. He did all of this through library books, as his family couldn't afford schooling.
xV7B0 TIL that Elliot Roosevelt, the son of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, wrote a series of mystery novels about his mother solving murders in the White House.