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TIL only one firefighter actually got up to the fire in WTC on 9/11 by fixing an elevator himself to 40th floor and then running all the way up to 78th floor.

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eWEJ TIL Steve Jobs “eliminated all corporate philanthropy programs” at Apple when he became CEO and declined to join Bill Gates’ “Giving Pledge”
X0EvR TIL that of the 24 Franklin Counties in the United States, Franklin County, Idaho, is the only one that is not named after Benjamin Franklin; it is named after Franklin D. Richards, an Apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
08PM TIL a couple in Japan on their morning walk stumbled upon a life-sized sex doll wrapped in plastic they mistook for a corpse. It was not until later that afternoon when police pathologists cut open the wrapping that they realised it was not a real body.
0m4L TIL when three men with machetes came into an African orphanage at night, a man named Omari took a hammer to fight all three at once. He survived after getting hit in the face with a machete, and saved all of the children. His story, first shared on Reddit, helped raise $83,000 for the orphanage.
gMaW7 TIL Since the death of Confucius in 479 BC, all his descendants have been registered. With over 2 million registered descendants alive today. Making it the largest family tree in the world.