Post * D1kpe — Curious Curator

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TIL Helen Keller was a suffragist, pacifist, and radical socialist. She actively campaigned and wrote in support of the working class from 1909 to 1921.

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dDD8d TIL in 1955, actor Ray Liotta was adopted from an orphanage at the age of six months. He hired a private detective to locate his biological mother in the 2000s, and learned that he had one biological sister, one biological half-brother, and five biological half-sisters.

QNEO9 TIL out of Qatar's population of 2.6 million, only the 12% have qatari citizenship. 88% of their total population consists of expats, migrant laborers, mainly from South Asia

616m TIL the very first reported death caused by video game was in 1982 - a 18 year old played the arcade classic Berzerk, made it to the Top Ten list twice in one sitting - and then collapsed and died from a heart attack after putting another quarter in the machine

R5Rj4 TIL about the female Pharaoh Hatshepsut. The daughter of Thutmose I and his first wife, she married her half-brother, Thutmose II, and was his first wife. When Thutmose II died, she became regent for the baby Thutmose III, her husband's heir by another wife. She ruled 22 years until her death.

XEx4k TIL Mark Hamill went to Comic-Con dressed as a stormtrooper and took photos with a bunch of unknowing fans