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On September 11th, 2001, Officer John Perry of the NYPD went to headquarters to file retirement paperwork. When he heard the explosion at the world trade center he immediately responded and was later killed when one of the towers collapsed. He was the only off-duty officer killed on 9/11.
About Roselle, a seeing-eye dog that led her blind owner, Michael Hingson, down 1,463 steps from the 78th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001. Dog and owner exited just before the South Tower collapsed, and both survived.
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Stoffel—a Honey Badger in a South African wildlife center who’s escaped his enclosure twice to fight the lions in the exhibit beside his, built towers out of rocks and sticks to climb over his wall, and, when introduced with a mate, stood on her head to unlock the gate and get out once again.
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The original World Trade Center towers were designed to withstand the impact of a Boeing 707
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Iranians still use the ancient form of air conditioning called the badgir. It is a tower with vents on top and allows cool air to accelerate down into a building. Zion National Park in Utah has a modern example of this, where temps reach over 100 F, the visitors center stays at cool 73 F.
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Wesley Snipes' apartment was destroyed by the collapse of the World Trade Center's Twin Towers. He happened to have been at his daughter's birth, which he says saved his life.
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On 9/11 four people in the South Tower of the World Trade Center managed to escape from a floor above the plane's impact.
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To save time for workers constructing the new World Trade Center, a Subway restaurant pod was put on hydraulic legs next to tower cranes so that it could be moved up the building as it was built.
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There is a third world trade center tower in China, looking exactly like the ones in New York.
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Rick Rescorla, director of security for Morgan Stanley and tenant of the World Trade Center south tower, helped to evacuate all but 13, including himself, of the company's 2,687 employees before the tower's collapse.
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A man named Dan Goodwin climbed the north World Trade Center tower in 1983 to call attention to the inability to rescue trapped occupants from the upper levels of skyscrapers.
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There is a World Trade Center tower in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Designed by the same architect, used the same building materials, and built at the same time.
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The Mars Rover Contains Pieces of Metal Recovered From the demolished World Trade Center Towers as a Tribute to 9/11 Victims.
George Willig, who climbed the South Tower of World Trade Center on May 26, 1977. As his stunt was not officially scheduled, New York City wanted to fine him $250k for for "the inconvenience the stunt caused". However, the mayor of New York fined him just $1.10, one cent for every floor. - source
During the design process of the World Trade Center, engineers had considered and done an analysis of a scenario where a jet airliner impacted a tower. - source
There was a movie made 4 years before 9/11 that condemned the incompetency of government officials to prevent the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center towers from happening again; it's called "Path to Paradise" (1997).
87 tons of food was delivered on a daily basis to the World Trade Center Complex.
At 9:59am the World Trade Center south tower collapsed, almost straight down as if it had been imploded.
Lawrence Wien, real estate tycoon and owner of the Empire State Building, ran an ad in The New York Times in May 1968 predicting that a commercial airliner was likely to fly into the World Trade Center towers.
Since construction of the Freedom Tower (One World Trade Center) in 2013, the building has produced at certain times an eerie ghostly sound that no one has exactly pinpointed where it comes from.
At 10:28am the World Trade Center north tower collapsed, similar to the way the first tower had dropped.
After One World Trade Center was completed, on very windy days the tower makes a high pitched sound described as "whining", "howling", or "moaning"
One of the landing gears to the planes that hit the twin towers on 9/11 wasn't discovered until 12 years later wedged between an Islamic community center, and another building.
