› added 12 years ago

195

TIL that Helen Keller was a radical socialist and the FBI monitored her because of it

Read more marxists.org

via reddit.com

1k9P TIL that Teddy Roosevelt volunteered for service in World War I ten years after having served as U.S. president.
4XE75 TIL that a CT scan machine looks pretty crazy inside while running.
XeQR TIL The French Prime Minister proposed uniting France and Britain into a single country in 1957
OpB6 TIL that having a relative “removed” defines their generation gap relative to you. So your mother’s first cousin is your first cousin, once removed.
enOE TIL Many people killed in crowd disasters die standing up