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TIL the US passed an act authorizing an invasion of The Hague in the Netherlands in order to free any US serviceman being held by the International Criminal Court

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R7rd1 TIL when HP was being named, William Hewlett & David Packard were unsure of the order to put their names so they decided by simply flipping a coin. Hewlett won.
0d8MA TIL In 1833, Britain used 40% of its national budget to pass the Slavery Abolition Act. The British government borrowed £20 million to compensate slave owners, but nothing was paid to the enslaved people themselves. The loan was one of the largest in history and wasn't paid off until 2015.
6Eagw TIL one of Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante’s first major influences was Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Hillel Slovak.
LkPDp TIL Android is now the world’s largest earthquake detection network.An Android phone can become a “mini seismometer” because it has an accelerometer — the thing that detects if you’ve rotated it or not. Android’s system uses the data from that sensor to see if the phone is shaking.
orko TIL Johnny Depp is blind in one eye