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TIL Helen Keller was as a cofounder of the ACLU

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jNxEj TIL there is a Museum of Soviet Arcade Games in Moscow, where visitors can try out over fifty playable games (including Tankodrome!) dating from the Soviet Era.
R5Mv6 TIL your computer keyboard is 20,589 times dirtier than a toilet seat. The average office keyboard has 3,543,000 colony-forming units (CFU) of bacteria per square inch while your average toilet seat only has 172 CFU per square inch
KYmEJ TIL that on April 1st 1989 Richard Branson flew an UFO-shaped balloon over London. It was realistic looking enough to have police and the military called and when it landed he had a dwarf in an ET costume step out of it to greet the onlookers.
N40N TIL that one proposal to get rid of Castro was to spread rumours that he was the Antichrist, then fake the second coming; a US submarine would project an image of Jesus on some clouds near Havana while firing star-shells. A loudspeaker would be the voice of Jesus, urging them to renounce communism.
R5kk6 TIL it’s legal to send someone a box of sh*t through the mail…