Sunday, July 5, 2009

How old was Helen Keller when she died?


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Why: Made a "too soon" joke about Billy Mays.

Answer: 87. She suffered a series of strokes in 1961 and then died in June 1968, 26 days before her 88th birthday.

Source: Wikipedia

The More You Know: She was born in 1880 on estate called Ivy Green in Tuscumbia, AL. She was not born blind and deaf. When she was 19 months old, she contracted an illness described by doctors as "an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain" - possibly scarlet fever or meningitis - that left her blind and deaf.

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