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TIL a B25 bomber hit the Empire State Buildings’ 79th floor.The building was open on Monday, one day after the crash.

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m1L8Y TIL in 1916, 17yr old Jesse Washington was convicted of murder in Waco. A lynch mob took him from the court and proceeded to cut off his fingers and genitals, they then burnt him to death slowly whilst the hung him by his neck, lowering and raising him in the fire to prolong his suffering.
N6eP TIL: A Japanese CEO took a pay-cut along with the employees during recession, and, when told about America’s rich-poor pay-gap, said “We in Japan learned during the bubble economy that businesses who pursue money first fail. The business world has lost sight of this basic tenet of business ethics.”
ANK8x TIL haggis has been banned from being imported into the US since 1971 due to a ban on food containing sheep lung
ADY8w TIL Winona Ryder was beat up as a child by bullies for looking like a feminine boy and was then kicked out of the school instead of the bullies. She ran into one bully years later and the bully asked for her autograph, to which she gloriously denied.
KdKG TIL in the 1960s the USAF brought cats into a weightless environment