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5Y4y8 TIL The main shareholder in the firm that owns the Carrara quarries in Italy is the bin Laden family, which means the marble used in the Freedom Tower is quarried by the family of Osama bin-Laden, who engineered the destruction of the Twin Towers that previously stood on the same site on 9/11.
mvJo TIL “Rat-Children” in Pakistan. Where babies’ heads are placed in rings to stunt growth so that they appear disabled. These children are sold for large sums of money to become professional beggars
VBBBG TIL that Harambe’s mother, only full brother, and two of his half siblings were killed when a tub of wet chlorine tablets was left by a space heater. The toxic fumes were blown into the gorilla enclosure and killed the four gorillas.
LQmx0 TIL Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks turned down the role of "Lone Starr" in the Mel Brooks classic Spaceballs
b9Av0 TIL that US food manufacturers used cans that were soldered with lead until 1991.