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  1. Today is the anniversary of the day Anne Sullivan began teaching sign language to 6-year old Helen Keller (1887). LKF: For several years in the 1920's, Sullivan and Keller toured together on the vaudeville circuit, performing a skit they created to raise awareness for the handicapped.
  2. That deaf dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball.
  4. It is against the law to die in the town of Svalbard Norway.
  5. Les Paul us the only person to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the National Inventors Hall of Fame
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  6. The word hypnogogic refers to the state of mind just before falling asleep.
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  7. If I ever get a pet tortoise I'm going to name him Usain, The fasted recorded land speed by a tortoise is 0.28 meters per second.
  8. The world record for the number of T Shirts worn at one time is 257.
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  9. Dmitri Hvorostovsky was known as the Elvis of Opera but he looked a lot like Ric Flair

    WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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  10. In 2013 a British naval vessel used the music of Brittney Spears to scare of Somali pirates.

    Merchant naval officer Rachel Owens explained the tactics: "Her songs were chosen by the security team because they thought the pirates would hate them most

    I wonder if they considered playing the theme music from the Popeye cartoons.
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