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TIL a Secret Service employee at 7 World Trade Center, commended for his rescue work on 9/11, stole cars recovered on ground zero and gave them to his mother and daughter after producing false paperwork stating that the cars had been crushed at Fresh Kills.

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p8jQQ TIL about absorption cooling: freeze things by burning stuff (or using residual heat from other processes, such as water heating). Patented back in 1859-1860, with the first commercial application in 1925, this process is still used today in gas powered refrigerators, typically found in RVs.
AD57l TIL just how massive and well coordinated the opening air attack on Iraq was in Desert Storm. Multiple countries were involved, multiple types of different aircraft were used, and hundreds of aircraft in the air all at the same time, it was an incredible effort.
QNxnE TIL that Nirvana's "In Utero" album was recorded in Cannon Falls, Minnesota - A town of 4,000 that's 50 miles southeast of Minneapolis
oBdp8 TIL The Walter Reade Organization mistakenly omitting the logo © when renaming George A. Romero's originally titled "Night of the Flesh Eaters" made Night of the Living Dead public domain. Thus, we'll never know how much the film made worldwide from all its unapproved showings, copies and sales.
EZJo TIL: In the original story of the Wizard of Oz, Dorothy wore silver slippers to protect her from the Wicked Witch of the West, but this was changed to Ruby Slippers in the 1939 film to take advantage of the new Technicolor process