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TIL Paper fortune tellers have 5 other names

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Rbv4 TIL Hellen Keller was a radical Socialist.
pYDmO TIL in 1961 an 11-yr-old girl survived drifting on a dinghy without food or water for roughly 82 hours before being rescued. The captain of her boat had sunk it in an attempt to kill those on board that he hadn't already killed. His wife, her parents & two siblings died. He committed suicide later.
W7Oo4 TIL that there is only one confirmed attempt by British colonists to infect natives with smallpox. In 1763, native warriors laid siege to Fort Pitt. After negotiations to abandon the fort failed, the British gave the emissaries two blankets and a handkerchief from a smallpox infected patient
OG4Me TIL there is a modern world capital that is an uninhabitable ghost town. Plymouth, Montserrat is a modern Pompeii, destroyed by volcanic eruptions in the late 1990s
jA7p TIL when the American Dairy Association was extending its “Got Milk?” ads into Mexico, the Spanish translation ended up as “Are you lactating?”