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TIL the average age of the 9/11 attackers was only 23.95 y/o with only one of the 19 attackers being over 30 and three of the attackers being 20

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GYVNE TIL that the city of Erbil in Iraq has a 'bulge' in the middle that has formed over the course of 6000 years as new buildings have been built over the remains of old ones
GgYj TIL New York has been hit by 84 hurricanes since the 17th century. 1938 was the strongest.
RaD8 TIL There’s a thing called “Rubber duck debugging” in which a programmer explains the code to an inanimate object in hopes of finding the bug
d8PwK TIL Levar Burton of Reading Rainbow directed the 1999 Disney Channel Original Movie 'Smart House'
d8WP7 TIL in 1994, the Surgeon General of the U.S. was fired for saying masturbation is "part of human sexuality, and perhaps should be taught."