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5Y4y8 TIL The main shareholder in the firm that owns the Carrara quarries in Italy is the bin Laden family, which means the marble used in the Freedom Tower is quarried by the family of Osama bin-Laden, who engineered the destruction of the Twin Towers that previously stood on the same site on 9/11.
ad6L TIL A woman became the youngest Grandma at 23 years old. She had a daughter when she was 11 and a grandson 12 years later.
dDKwB TIL Estrogen is linked to causing depression and anxiety in women but doctors and scientists are unsure how. The actual measured level of estrogen doesn't predict emotional disturbances.
ANKQg TIL about the Guinness share-trading fraud, a major business scandal of the 1980s. It involved the manipulation of the London stock market to inflate the price of Guinness shares to thereby assist Guinness's £4 billion takeover bid for the Scottish drinks company Distillers.
LkV7m TIL while animating Ratatouille, a Pixar employee jumped into a pool while wearing a chef’s outfit and hat to determine how it would cling to a character’s body and what parts would become translucent.