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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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b6jbj TIL a judge in Brazil ordered identical twin brothers to pay maintenance to a child whose paternity proved inconclusive after a DNA test and their refusal to say who had fathered the child. The judge said the two men were taking away from the young girl's right to know who her biological father was.
Y7Oax TIL that operating system Linux approximates informational anarchist communism
o1Go TIL that for the release of Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire, 9,000 FedEx trucks and 100 airplanes were used with no purpose than to deliver the book.
9n5X TIL the languages of Hawaii and Madagascar are related
VDAB TIL a brain damaged rat was given a robotic cerebellum. The cyborg rodent then achieved normal body functions.