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TIL that Helen Keller and Mark Twain were good friends, and he got his rich friends to pay for her education at Radcliffe.

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neP79 TIL the very first sci-fi novel, A True Story, was written in ancient Greek in the 2nd century AD. It featured space travel, aliens, robots, artificial atmospheres and more
dkdB TIL a man who was lost in the woods chopped down some power lines so that workers would have to come and rescue him.
1ZXd TIL despite poor health which lead to his eventual death, Raúl Juliá was eager to portray M. Bison in the 1994 movie Street Fighter because his children were fans of the video game franchise and he would get to spend more time with them. It was his last major film role.
0Kl5 TIL: Under the US Copyright Office “supernatural beings” cannot hold copyrights so technically if they’re real, vampires or werewolves can’t get royalties for their original content.
Mj0 TIL Italian soccer player Mario Balotelli supposedly paid for 24 homeless to stay in the Hilton for New Year’s