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TIL that an Oklahoma-based CEO liked the design of the World Trade Center so much, that in 1976 he commissioned the WTC’s architects to build him a tower that resembled a half-scale version of Tower 1. It remained Oklahoma’s tallest skyscraper for 35 years.

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