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TIL on 9/11, despite security telling people to stay, Aon executives began evacuating their employees and thus saved 924 lives.

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VM9D0 TIL the world's first photographic process, the daguerreotype, was capable of recording fine detail better than today's digital cameras. A panoramic photo captured in 1848 was taken at a resolution equivalent to 140,000 megapixels.
Zbbv TIL that Carrie Fisher regularly got high on cocaine on set of The Empire Strikes Back, it got so bad that even John Belushi told her she had a problem.
X0emj TIL that deafblind people can use the lormen alphabet to communicate
pD0A TIL as Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger delayed telling President Richard Nixon about the start of the Yom Kippur War in 1973 to keep him from interfering
G8Ej TIL Horatio G. Spafford wrote the famous hymn “It is Well With My Soul” after hearing that his four daughters had died on a ship collision. This was two years after his only son died to pneumonia and his entire business was destroyed by the Chicago fire.