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TIL - Actor James Woods reported the four terrorists of 9/11 before the attack, but nobody believed him.

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4Xvk5 TIL in the 1970s, physicists used a diapered ferret to assist them in cleaning the inside of a particle accelerator. The ferret, named Felicia, made dozens of runs before retiring as a pet on a mink farm.