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TIL Helen Keller was as a cofounder of the ACLU

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KOyV4 TIL that "decimation" means "removal of a tenth" in Latin, and refers to a Roman practice in which military commanders punished units for capital offenses by having soldiers execute 1 in 10 of their comrades.
X07pk TIL Beyond Good and Evil 2 has broken the record for longest game development time, at almost 16 years
5YnpR TIL that the "Pillars of Creation" within the Eagle Nebula are about 4-5 Light years tall
9YNx7 TIL Joseph Stalin’s granddaughter is a gun-loving antique shop owner in Portland, Oregon and a Buddhist.
7km7 TIL The maximum score in Yahtzee is 1575. To achieve this score a player must roll 13 Yahtzees. The probability of a player rolling 13 Yahtzees in a game is about 1 in 283 quadrillion (15 zeros)