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TIL on Google News you can search and read old print newspapers, going as far back as 1752

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rRjyx TIL that 112 people died during the construction of the Hoover Dam, and the last documented fatality was the son of the first documented fatality
X0VRR TIL William Grant Still's Symphony No. 1, Afro-American, performed in 1931 is considered the first symphony by a Black American composer to be performed by an established orchestra. It is a “blues symphony,” with blues theme in call-and-response with horns and woodwinds and ends with a spiritual
KOa94 TIL In the late 1500s, two Dutch spectacle makers stacked a number of lenses in a tube and realized that, together, they made items appear much larger than under a single magnifying glass. Because the maximum magnification was only 9x, they were more of a novelty than a scientific instrument
xVVA1 TIL Japanese firm gives non-smokers extra six days holiday to compensate for cigarette breaks
xVogk TIL That Anita Hemmings was the first African-American female to graduate from Vassar College. She did this by pretending to be spanish, however she was discovered the day before graduation. She still received her diploma.