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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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0ddKy TIL in 1982 the US government secretly supplied state of the art Sidewinder missiles to UK during Falklands War. Overall British Harriers shot down 23 planes without a combat loss during the conflict.
xVRM0 TIL WebCrawler launched in 1994 and is the oldest surviving search engine on the web today. For many years, it operated as a metasearch engine. WebCrawler was the first web search engine to provide full text search.
78Y6Z TIL that there were actually two German Kings called Henry the seventh. When writing about them one is called Henry (VII.) and one Henry VII. In German the former is actually called "Heinrich der Klammersiebte" which translates to "Henry the bracketed seventh".
WkbB8 TIL the Metric system was invented in 1799
9YW5X TIL “Amazing Grace” was written by a repentant slave trader who hoped “it will always be a subject of humiliating reflection to me.”