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TIL that an investment bank which lost 75% of its employees in 9/11 sued American Airlines for negliegence in allowing terrorists on board, and won $135 million

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b1MZ TIL that Utah is the largest consumer of paid internet pornography in the United States
e0eoD TIL that just one minute prior to the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, US Planes dropped an unsigned letter over the city addressed to professor Ryokichi Sagane, who had studied with three of the scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project, urging him to tell the public about the danger of the bombs.
nW5L9 TIL Genghis Khan set up an institution that ensured complete religious freedom in the Mongol empire, though he himself was a Tengrist (religion originating from the Eurasian steppes)
4b1w TIL that in 2014, a missing woman was found when it was discovered that she was in the search party looking for herself.
VMxGZ TIL: Norway and Senegal are the only national football teams that have never lost against Brazil (Norway has won twice and drawn twice)