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TIL hospitals throughout the NYC area were bracing for maximum capacity on 9/11, only to slowly realize there were very few survivors from the World Trade Center's collapse.

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DNav TIL that people are being held hostage so that their blood can be regularly drained and sold for profit.
p8MNe TIL that the phrase "out of sorts" is most often attributed to typesetting and refers to running out of an individual metal type called "sorts" that printers used during Tudor times in England, though the phrase itself predates that.
xm9D TIL in 1975 a Missouri construction worker heard of a device pitched to the US Army that would steer the rear wheels of a vehicle if the front axle broke. He modified it to work permanently and installed it on his 1974 Ford F-250, called it ‘Bigfoot’, and thus created the monster truck.
p8JNp TIL Stradivarius, of violin fame, also made guitars. While there are hundreds of Stradivarius violins, there's only one remaining playable Stradivarius guitar left in the world.
a80Jo TIL roadrunners are actually much slower than coyotes. A roadrunner sprints at about 20 mph (or 32 km/h), whereas a coyote's top speed can reach over 40 mph (or 64 km/h).