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epAA6 TIL that the 9/11 attacks cost Cantor Fitzgerald 658 employees. The CEO, who that day was driving his kid to school, eventually gave the families $180 million and promised employment to all the victims' kids. As of 2016, Cantor Fitzgerald employed 57 of the kids.
LX8p TIL when Mel Blanc went into a coma in 1961, his doctors got him to communicate by addressing him as Bugs Bunny. Blanc responded in character but did not remember the conversations.
aw8o0 TIL Scaled Composites wanted to register their SpaceShipOne spaceplane with the FAA as N100KM, as a reference to the Kármán line, the boundary between the atmosphere and space, but as it was taken, they settled for N328KF, or 328 kilofeet, the imperial conversion of 100km.
W77a9 TIL in 2010, a Princeton research team discovered that rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those with access to table sugar, even when their overall caloric intake was the same.
vKOR TIL the reason that the original Lara Croft had such large breasts is that the size was accidentally set to 150% by designer, Tony Gard. The rest of the crew convinced him to keep it that way.