The infamous 9/11 terrorists attacks on the twin towers shook America 15 years ago and tremors can still be felt today.
1. 3,051 children lost a parent in the attack.
2. A guise dog, Roselle, a Labrador led her blind owner, Michael down to ground from 78 storeys of the north tower and to home of a friend!
3. It took 100 days for firefighters to extinguish fires ignited by the attacks.
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4. 3 hours before the attacks happened, a machine called Random Event Generator at Princeton University predicted that a devastating event was about to unfold.
5. Five of the 9/11 hijackers stayed right outside the National Security Agency- the American spy organization, i a motel, in the days before the attacks.
6. Out of about 3,000 people killed, only 291 dead bodies were found ‘intact’.
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7. 4 planes were hijacked, 2 of which crashed into the world trade centre, third into the Pentagon- the headquarters of US department of defense and the fourth was supposed to hit Washington D.C. but passengers overcame the passengers only to crash into a field in Pennsylvania.
8. Al- Queda leader Osama Bin Laden who was responsible for the attacks, was killed in a covert operation in Pakistan. He was hiding their and was killed by American troops when Pakistani government had no clue about this!
9. The emergency number of America- 911 is the way Americans write the date September 11.
10. September 11 is now remembered as ‘Patriotic day’ in the memory of those who lost their lives.
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