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TIL Helen Keller was a librarian at public and college libraries including Drexel Institute and Columbia University and authored The Reader's Digest of Books.

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mbEp TIL in 1867 Alaska became the only place to have two Fridays in succession. This was due to the United States purchase of Alaska from Russia, causing it’s timezone to change from GMT+14 to GMT-10
VM1P8 TIL that in the 1970s, at the height of the Troubles, Stanley Kubrick was in Ireland shooting scenes featuring red-coated British soldiers. He got a threatening phone call telling him he had 24 hours to leave Ireland. He left in 12.
78Q0r TIL that Calcifying Nanoparticles are self replicating organic particles found in blood and smaller than any known bacteria
4kkVb TIL that Queen Elizabeth II had two severely disabled first cousins who were publicly pronounced dead in 1940 and 1961 respectively, but actually lived in a care home with no visits or support from the royal family until their actual deaths in 1986 and 2014.
51rQ TIL there’s an exclusive restaurant in Italy that accommodates only 2 people.