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TIL that Franklin Roosevelt most likely had Guillane-Barre syndrome rather than polio

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P1EZg TIL Edmund Kemper helped a nonprofit called Volunteers of Vacaville in reading/recording books for blind people to listen to. He logged over 5000 hours between 1977-1987 but stopped in 2015 after a stroke.
N7WpQ TIL that Al-Qaeda were surprised by the collapse of the Twin Towers. Among those planning the attacks, Osama Bin Laden had been the most "optimistic", due to his experience in engineering, and had predicted that the fire would collapse the area where the planes hit and all the floors above only
7rg5Z TIL of Ben Sliney, who started his new job on 9/11/2001 and had to make the decision to ground every flight across the US airspace
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