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TIL that there is video footage of Helen Keller, including her speaking.

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0dEx5 TIL Zerão stadium’s center line is aligned with the equator according to Brazil’s geodetic system, splitting teams into different hemispheres. However, under the WGS84 system, the equator runs through the stands, placing the entire field in the northern hemisphere.
oRkw7 TIL East Timor has the highest percentage of Catholics per total population in world at 98%, after the Vatican city.
JWnQ TIL a man cut his truck open after hearing a purring noise come from his parking car and found a stray kitten had lodged itself in the frame. He carefully drove to a Humane Society, where the cat was safely rescued. The Society set up a fund to repair his car, with extra money to help other animals
Yp4Od TIL about the Zambian space program in the 1960s, which aimed to send a woman (an afronaut) and 2 cats to the moon using a 2x3 metre drum rocket to establish a Christian ministry to the primitive martians
DYKv TIL a ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time. It is the time it takes for light to travel one cm in a vacuum.