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[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 94 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Maybe a better title would have included "from 2009 to 2011"

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 24 points 5 months ago

But that would make this "news" piece irrelevant, no?

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 23 points 5 months ago

In other news, the world trade center was hit by a plane

Yeah... it's very clickbatey to NOT include that detail.