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TIL of Vanessa Lawrence, a woman who was on the 91st floor of the World Trade Center (North Tower) as Flight 11 crashed into it, and survived with only a cut on her foot

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d8QoB TIL Forty stones outline the original boundary of Washington DC, many of which are forgotten and neglected. This 10-sq mile area was to be the new capital of the United States, proposed by George Washington and assisted in its layout by a free-African American astronomer, Benjamin Banneker, in 1789
R7M5a TIL there's an auditory illusion named the Shepard Tone, where multiple octaves are looped in such a way that it sounds like it's a sound rising in tone for infinity.
EgJjW TIL a pizza delivery driver in 2022, Nick Bostic, received the Carnegie Medal. The award is given throughout the U.S. and Canada to those who enter extreme danger while saving or attempting to save the lives of others. The medal is North America's highest honor for civilian heroism.
xVELw TIL that everyone is actually blind in one part of their vision, and you can easily see this in action right now with a simple test. The cause is nerve fibers blocking the retina, and your brain just fills in this spot with surrounding images, so you don't normally notice it.
6N9m TIL an 11 year old girl was killed during therapy, crushed to death in an attempt to re-stimulate birth