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TIL Disney World is legally allowed to build a nuclear plant in Florida under a 1960s law.

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Oo0oa TIL of 14 year old George Stinney, one of the youngest ever executed via electric chair, in 1944. Wrongfully convicted of murdering two white girls (aged 7 & 11), his frame was so small his face mask slipped off after the initial electric shock . His conviction was vacated in 2014.
JYmjl TIL, after returning from a 20 year exile from Hollywood for being labeled a communist, Charlie Chaplin received the longest standing ovation in Oscar's history at 12 minutes long.
yakV TIL the composer for Looney Tunes cartoons, Carl W. Stalling, wrote on average one complete episode score per week for 22 years
p8Yde It's not that they can't. They just don't need to, says Mike Murray, a veterinarian at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California. Birds have the anatomical and physical ability to pass gas, he explains, "but if I saw gas in a bird's gastrointestinal tract on an x-ray, I'd suspect that something abnormal was going on in there."
1eNr TIL the Racial Integrity Act of 1924 required that a racial description of every person be recorded at birth and divided society into only two classifications: white and colored. It also expanded Virginia’s ban on interracial marriage by criminalizing all marriages between whites and non-whites