› added 11 years ago

347

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

Read more youtube.com

via reddit.com

ZOmY TIL Less well-known to foreigners, Camilo Cienfuegos is revered in Cuba as a hero of the Revolution, with monuments, memorials, and an annual celebration in his honour, where school children throughout Cuba throw flowers into the sea. He went missing in mysterious circumstances in 1959.
10WD TIL PETA had a problem with the whaling segment of Assassins Creed : Black Flag. Ubisoft dismissed it saying they did not condone whaling any more than they they condoned a pirate lifestyle
0woV1 TIL When Paul Joannides first wrote "the Guide To Getting It On", no publisher wanted it because they said it wasn’t enough like the “Joy of Sex”. It also had a sense of humor, and publishers believed that sex and humor were not good companions, so Joannides started his own publishing company
d8lpr TIL that there is a nonprofit dedicated to fighting for the reconstruction of the old Penn Station, as it was from 1910-1963.
6EVXX TIL that Singapore Airlines has a "Corpse Cupboard", a cupboad used to store the body of anyone that dies on one of their flights.