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TIL Helen Keller was a co-founder of the ACLU.
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TIL Nichelle Nichols was talked out of quitting her role as Uhura on ‘Star Trek: The Original Series’ by Martin Luther King Jr., because showing a black woman working alongside white men would help to achieve racial equality.
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TIL that an estimated 25% of young adults in the U.S. have a fear of the slight pain caused by needles called trypanophobia, and that it may lead 16% of young adults in the U.S. to skip getting medical injections.
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TIL A large Big Mac meal at McDonalds contains 95 grams of sugar.
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TIL that it’s possible to upgrade through every major version of Windows, from 1.0 to Windows 7 (always upgrading, no clean install)
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TIL from the 1930’s to the 50’s, film studios used pure white asbestos fibers to replicate the look of snow. It was used in ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and the famous snow scene at the end of Bing Crosby’s ‘White Christmas.’ Brands of asbestos fake snow included ‘White Magic’ ‘Snow Drift’ and ‘Pure White.’