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TIL Hellen Keller was a radical Socialist.
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TIL Some fundamentalist members of the Mormon faith believe Bigfoot is Cain from the Bible, damned to walk the Earth forever as a ferocious beast as punishment for killing his brother Abel.
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TIL that Angkor, the capital of the Khmer empire, was the largest city in the world during the middle ages. At 1,350 sq. miles, it was bigger than modern day NYC and Tokyo combined.
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TIL that the superstition of "knocking on wood" to avoid bad luck dates back to ancient Celtic tribes. They believed that spirits or gods lived in trees, and knocking on the tree would call on these spirits for protection.
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TIL that Taco Bell partnered with a recycling company so you can ship back your empty hot sauce packets
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TIL in the early 1900s, women used hatpins to fend off sexual harassers in the streets. These pins were so effective in fending off assaulters that legislation was proposed to curb these “accessories to assault.” Men would often come away with wounds that were “not serious, but very painful.”