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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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BgLZx TIL - Takanakuy is a word that refers Fist fights to settle disagreements on Christmas in Peru.
D1Qgv TIL It takes thousands of years for light to escape the sun, then 8.3 minutes to reach earth. The sunlight we see is thousands of years old.
DGpJ TIL During the Battle of Stalingrad, the Russian army would project audio propaganda to demoralize German forces, including a “Death Tango” and a female voice saying “Every 7 seconds, a German soldier dies on the Eastern Front.” followed by a clock’s ticking noise.
E1dVW TIL after instigating one of Africa's bloodiest civil wars that killed 1 out of every 17 Liberians, Charles Taylor ran for President under the slogan "He killed my Ma, he killed my Pa, but I will vote for him." He won in a landslide.
K1A6 TIL that the First Gulf War (in 1991) technically never ended — there was just a cease-fire. The UK used this legal loophole to justify entering the Second Gulf War (in 2003).