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TIL Limp Bizkit was the last band to perform on the world trade centre, in September 2000, with their music video "Rolling".

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9wQoX TIL about the history of the Enigma machine, a cryptographic device used by the German military during World War II.
M7J8A TIL there are no records of a panda having killed a human.
ne1eb TIL in 1987 when an SR-71 Blackbird lost an engine while flying Mach 3 over the Baltic Sea, four Swedish jets prevented it from getting shot down by the Soviets. The mission was declassified 30 years later, and the four Swedish pilots that protected the Blackbird were awarded the US Air Medal
9YOQQ TIL that the parents of Oscar Nunez (who played Oscar on the Office) were classmates of Fidel Castro at the University of Havana
JYrDv TIL that American president Zachary Taylor (in office 1849-50) fell ill and died after consuming copious amounts of raw fruit and iced milk, while attending 4th of July celebrations during a fund-raising event at the Washington Monument then under construction.