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TIL Helen Keller was not born blind and deaf, but became so as a result of “brain fever” and was friends with many celebrities during her lifetime ranging from Mark Twain, Charlie Chaplin to John F. Kennedy

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7rEKO TIL Parshvanatha, from 8th century BC, was the earliest exponent of Karma philosophy in recorded history. Parshvanatha was born with blue-black skin. A strong, handsome boy, he played with the gods of water, hills and trees
4Xbdg TIL Of An Intense Battle Between A Crocodile and An Olive Python. The 10-ft snake, coiled itself around the crocodile and the two struggled in the water. The snake later brought the dead crocodile onto land and ate it.
XEKlj TIL: The term "yakuza" comes from the numbers 8, 9, and 3, which are the worst cards you can have in Oicho-Kabu, a Japanese card game similar to Baccarat.
MedAa TIL that James Webb ran NASA in the 1960’s and pushed for a balance between space flight and science. He wrote in 1965 that a major space telescope should be pursued.
rRZy0 TIL When Diana Ross performed the Super Bowl halftime show in the middle of her last number, a helicopter landed in the middle of the field, she boarded it, and continued singing "take me higher, I will survive" as she flew out of the stadium.