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TIL Andrew Carnegie spent $55 million of his own money to build 2,509 libraries around the English speaking world

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yVKpv TIL: In the 1950s, to re-establish breeding populations, pairs of beavers were dropped by parachute in remote wildernesses. It worked.
DQaAD TIL people were drinking beer and eating blue cheese over 2 thousand years ago according to studies of ancient bowel movements discovered in caves
DQN9V TIL that Adolf Hitler was self-conscious of his knees being photographed, and banned any existing pictures of his knees from public circulation during his time in power.
QJZKe TIL, one of the main attractions at Madame Tussaud's original museum were death masks of victims of the French Revolution.
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