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TIL Helen Keller is credited with having introduced the Akita, a Japanese dog breed, to the United States

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gMX4y TIL during the 2013 Westgate shopping mall attack in Kenya an ex SAS member and former Irish soldier joined forces to rescue victims of the shooting, organised police to attempt a counter attack and evaded gunfire while rescuing people still trapped in the mall
ojZW TIL of the Angel of Nanjing; a selfless man who has patrolled the Yangtze River Bridge since 2003, saving people who wish to commit suicide and counselling them back to health, he has saved over 300 lives to this day.
rN4xM TIL that in the 4th century CE, Roman bishop Acacius of Amida sold the all church's treasures to free 7000 Persian prisoners captured by the Romans during war. The Persian emperor was so impressed by the act that he ordered an end to Christian persecution throughout his empire.
7R8X TIL Bill Murray hired an assistant who ‘was profoundly deaf and spoke only in sign language’ to make communication as difficult as possible between him, the director and the studio during the filming of 'Groundhog Day’
R7rd1 TIL when HP was being named, William Hewlett & David Packard were unsure of the order to put their names so they decided by simply flipping a coin. Hewlett won.