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TIL the World Wide Web is 7777 days old today.

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Y7LxB TIL That we've been accidentally finding ancient cheese all across the globe
7rm1M TIL about Karl Richard Lepsius, a Prussian egyptologist who led an expedition to the Great Pyramids of Giza during the 1840s, leaving behind a hieroglyphic graffiti above its entrance, praising the patron of the project, King Friedrich Wilhelm IV.
vdYx TIL that Bea Arthur (Golden Girls Dorothy) was a truck driving Marine.
N74WJ TIL in 1842, the British had an army of 16,000 men retreating from Kabul, Afghanistan. Only one man survived after losing some of his skull, protected by a magazine stored in his hat. He arrived in Jalalabad and when asked where the army was, he stated "I am the army".
wLbDE TIL many Airliners use Microsoft Windows for the Chart & Handbook displays in the Cockpit