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TIL Canada took in 255 diverted flights from the US on 9/11 and then the Canadians fed the diverted passangers

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5MvD TIL purple is known as the colour of royalty because in ancient times the only way of producing the rare purple dye was from an extraction process of a murex snail by the Phoenicians. This process was very expensive and subsequently valued higher than gold.
rpwW TIL that 80% of Soviet males born in 1923 didn’t survive World War 2
8aZlK TIL that when a plane was hijacked over Switzerland in 2014, the neighboring countries of Italy and France had to send their own fighter jets to the scene because the incident happened outside of the Swiss Air Force's business hours, and even hijackings weren't important enough to pay for overtime.
JoP4 TIL the September 11 terror attacks on the WTC released a dust cloud of toxic asbestos fibers across Manhattan. An estimated 410,000 people have been exposed. It is believed lung cancer and mesothelioma cases in the city will reach a peak in the year 2041 (four decades after 9/11)
n11d TIL It took Pixar 29 hours to render a single frame from Monsters University. If done on a single CPU it would have taken 10,000 years to finish.