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TIL Helen Keller was a co-founder of the ACLU.

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6WLW TIL Wal-Mart once pulled Midge, a doll in the Barbie line, from the shelves due to concerns she was pregnant with no wedding ring and it would promote teen pregnancy.
6EyVQ TIL Bud Sailors, 6'5", would tease his younger brother, Kenny Sailors, 5'7", playing basketball, "Kenny, this isn't the game for you. It's for big men. Tall men." So Kenny invented what is known today as the Jump Shot.
XEdXk TIL that the barbarian king who conquered Rome in 476 was a Christian and had recognition of the Roman senate and Eastern Roman emperor
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L7Vm TIL that ‘V for Vendetta’ was broadcast in China without any censorship, surprising many viewers.