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TIL that gold standard was accidentally introduced by Isaac Newton

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BroEe TIL that the USA partially uses metric, even if it’s not fully converted
KOVnG TIL Alfred George Hinds today remains remembered as one of the most celebrated British prison break artists. During his life he managed to escape from not one, but three heavily guarded prisons, all in attempt to prove his innocence to the English legal system.
WmV4 TIL The Canadian Air Force had to raid a museum in order to get spare parts for their planes
XjnQ TIL despite 82.9% opposition the Swedish government switched the entire country from left-hand side to right-hand side driving in ONE DAY in 1967
ZBWv TIL about Irena Sendler who (assisted by some two dozen other Żegota members) smuggled approximately 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto and then provided them with false identity documents and shelter outside the Ghetto, saving those children from the Holocaust.