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9wk6 TIL Seth MacFarlane and Mark Wahlberg both were booked on AA flight 11 which crashed into the World Trade Center. Wahlberg decided last minute to fly to Toronto, and MacFarlane missed it by just 10 minutes due to a hangover.
GWKJ TIL there exists a full scale 3D LOTR Middle Earth to explore in real time.
m1VVR TIL The ~1mm large animal known as Trichoplax can regenerate from just a handfull of cells and if its chopped up, the individual pieces will try to find each other and join back together.
oBNGK TIL the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition in the 20s and 30s, killing over 10,000 people.
7rjBx TIL there is such a thing as beat deafness, where someone finds it hard or impossible to clap on correct time to a piece of music or dance to it timed well to the music.