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TIL that there is video footage of Helen Keller speaking (1:50)

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JYvBV TIL a century after the bloody and violent Hatfield–McCoy feud in West Virginia/Kentucky, the two families faced off again on the game show "Family Fued" in 1979. The teams received a mannequin for every match they won as the producers thought it would be funny to “litter the stage with bodies”.
Ydgr TIL that property developers have figured out that giving artists temporary housing/workspaces is a first step to making an area more profitable. Once gentrification sets in, the artists are booted out. It’s called “artwashing”.
D1GJD TIL that Non-Muslims are forbidden to enter Mecca
k79E TIL that Elizabeth II, the Queen of the United Kingdom, is also the Queen of Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis.
JgrQ TIL that Jerry Lewis made a movie in 1972 where he plays a clown in a concentration camp, and leads kids on a train to a gas chamber. It has never seen the light of day.