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TIL that Helen Keller was a radical socialist, birth control supporter, and helped found the ALCU in 1920.

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MyV0 TIL that The Golden State Fence Company, hired to build part of the US-Mexico border wall, was fined $5M for hiring illegal immigrant workers.
mnjY TIL that a woman (Jeannette Rankin) was elected to Congress four years before women were granted the right to vote.
ep6L5 TIL the Russian listening device planted in the US Embassy, "The Thing" was designed by Leon Theremin, inventor of the theremin musical instrument.. and the technology in "The Thing" was a precursor to RFID tags.
YpL0A TIL before the metric system was adopted, there was over 250,000 different units of measurement in France varying from town to town.
7rbpO TIL about the quokka, a marsupial in Australia that has become so accustomed to humans visiting that it is known to take selfies with them