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TIL that exactly six months after 9/11, the hijackers’ Florida flight school received notification from the Immigration & Naturalization Service that two of them had been approved for student visas.

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QNBDa TIL The serpent symbolizes both good and evil. In medicine, snakes are a powerful symbol of healing, such as medical sign of a snake wrapped around a staff, known as the Rod of Asclepius. In religion, the snake is most often a symbol of deceit and evil, such as the serpent that tricked Adam and Eve
V7QZ TIL PETA’s Virginia shelter rescued 1,606 cats and 1,025 dogs last year. Of those animals, 95.64% of the cats and nearly 77% of the dogs were euthanized.
oB11A TIL because it extends into the Eastern hemisphere, Alaska is the western most, eastern most and the northern most state of USA.
dBKE TIL that “nearly 88,000 people (approximately 62,000 men and 26,000 women) die from alcohol-related causes annually, making alcohol the fourth leading preventable cause of death in the United States.”
9wbZr TIL That it is illegal in Japan to try and name a child Akuma