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TIL About how the only surviving China from the Windows on the World restaurant, that was located inside of the World Trade Center, was recovered post 9/11

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GY0v7 TIL that the main protagonist from the music video ( Take On Me by A-ha ), don't live happily ever after. In the follow up song (The Sun Always Shines On Tv By A-ha.) The male protagonist starts to dematerialize in the real world and runs off into the distances and then vanishes.
9Y8jM TIL that people sentenced to death by beheading were advised to give the headsman a gold coin to ensure he did not botch the beheading and cause a painful death by multiple strokes
GYG7N TIL, the Pacific Northwest is woefully unprepared for an earthquake and subsequent tsunami that would follow a quake in the Cascadia Subduction zone. The average time elapsed between quakes is 243 years. We are at currently at year 315 since the last quake. Everything west of I5 will be gone.
6DoJ TIL One of the test pilots for the interceptor version of the SR-71 was chosen for Apollo 15 mission to the Moon. He had a heart attack after his moon walk and the only reason anybody knew was because NASA noticed it on his heart monitor. It was left out of the mission debriefing records.
6EW4Y TIL Alfonso Ribeiro, best known for his dorky dancing Carlton character in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, started his career as a highly trained dancer. Before Carleton he had tap danced on Broadway, danced in a Pepsi commercial with Michael Jackson, and released a break dancing instructional video.