WORLD TRADE CENTER FACTS of 9/11 Attack

On September 11, 2001, 2,996 people were killed in the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center in NYC, the Pentagon building in Virginia, and in a plane crash in Pennsylvania.

The attack on the World Trade Center on 9/11 resulted in the largest loss of life by a foreign attack on American soil.

On any given workday, up to 50,000 employees.

18 people were rescued alive from the rubble of the WTC after 9/11.

Along with 1.4 million tons of debris removed, 19,435 body parts were recovered from the WTC after 9/11.

Al-Qaeda initially considered targeting nuclear power plants on 9/11 but decided against it, fearing things could "get out of control."

The New York Times wrote an article about every single 9/11 victim.

The World Trade Center's most famous survivor and president of its support group, Tania Head, was later found to be a fraud: she wasn't even in NYC on 9/11.

After 9/11, the Maasai tribe of Kenya gave 14 of their most important cattle to America as aid.

A month before 9/11, President George W. Bush was handed a memo titled: "Bin Laden Determined To Strike in US" saying it would be by hijacking planes, possibly targeting NYC.

The 9/11 attacks also destroyed US$100 million in art including work from Pablo Picasso.

The CIA had a secret office on the 25th floor of 7 World Trade Center, another nearby building that collapsed after the 9/11 attacks.

In 2002, the comptroller of the City of New York estimated the impact of 9/11 on the city's wealth to be US$30.5 billion.

Two F16 pilots went on a suicide mission to stop Flight 93 on 9/11. In the end, the flight's passengers took the plane down.

In New York, 6.5 hectares of buildings were directly affected when the Twin Towers collapsed in 9/11.

9/11 was not the first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. A bombing in February of 1993 killed six people.

In 2006, Russia gifted the U.S. a 9/11 memorial monument, which was erected in Bayonne, NJ.

The man who ordered the grounding of all aircraft in the U.S. on 9/11 was on his first day on the job.

The company that owned the WTC had scheduled a meeting for 9/11/2001 on Tower 1 to discuss what to do in the event of a terrorist attack, but rescheduled the night before because someone couldn't attend.

There's a 9/11 Memorial in Israel constructed of steel from the remains of the WTC.

In 2002, a 15-year-old boy, inspired by 9/11, stole an airplane and flew it into a skyscraper in Tampa, Florida. He was the only death.

On 9/11, four people in the South Tower of the WTC managed to escape from a floor above the plane's impact.

More than 1,100 people have been diagnosed with cancer as a result of "exposure to toxins at Ground Zero" from 9/11.

The largest sea evacuation in the U.S. happened on 9/11. Almost 500,000 people got evacuated by boat in less than 9 hours.

When flights got diverted or grounded during 9/11, Canada housed, fed, and sheltered over 33,000 passengers.

Only 1600 victims were identified of the 2749 present when the Twin Towers collapsed on 9/11.

For those who jumped from the WTC on 9/11, the fall lasted 10 seconds. They struck the ground at just under 150 mph, enough to ensure instant death on impact.