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TIL of John O’Niell who followed Osama Bin Laden while at the FBI said “we’re due for something big” the night before dying in the World Trade Center on Sept 11, 2001, where he worked as the head of security since Aug 2001.

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woe17 TIL the land Central Park is on was formerly a majority-Black settlement named Seneca Village. The land was seized through eminent domain, razed, and the settlement was largely forgotten until the publication of "The Park and the People: A History of Central Park" in 1992.
l7KOG TIL In 1997, during the Critérium International race, a horse jumped over a fence to join the peloton, it passed them and left the race just 20 km away from the finish line
dDwAd TIL Even during cloudless days with clear air, you can see a bright ring around the Sun caused by the scattering of sunlight in the atmosphere. A coronagraph and visual skyphotometer can study the intensity of solar aureole
VGX8 TIL that, at the age of 100, Fauja Singh broke 8 world records for centenarians in athletics in one day. Singh broke the records for the 100, 200, 400, 800, 1500, 3000, 5000 metres and the mile even though he did not develop the ability to walk until he was five years old.
8aAgP TIL Less than a year before Ernest Hemingway killed himself with a shotgun, he became paranoid and thought the FBI was following him. It later turned out that head of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, had, in fact, gotten an agent to watch Hemingway in Havana, Cuba, in the 1950s.