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TIL that the first person killed on September 11th was an Israeli special operations veteran and MIT graduate student who immediately attempted to stop the hijacking of Flight 11.

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1aXjV TIL That Australia's Last Flamingo Died In 2018 ....
1Dp7 TIL that Bob Duffey, possibly the world’s best, safest, and most unknown motorcycle stuntman, boasts a career of over 1200 jumps with only 3 crashes having “a record of perfection unequaled by anyone.” At age 66, he still performs motorcycle stunts to this day.
dDYM9 TIL in Britain during WW1, it was illegal to buy someone else a drink in a pub.
Jx0m TIL Leonhard Euler was the first mathematician to designate the function by writing it f(x).
KOlj4 TIL: the U. S. Government encouraged the extinction of the American Bison to starve and force Native Americans onto reservations.