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TIL about C.V. Wood, one of the chief designers of Disneyland and who helped secure funding through corporate sponsorships. He was actually fired three months after the park opened after Roy Disney caught him embezzling and he took his expertise to build other theme parks such as Six Flags.

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We4N TIL Legendary author Ray Bradbury was a descendant of Mary Bradbury, who was tried in the Salem Witch Trials of 1692.
5Vm5k TIL about Taft–Hartley Act. Taft–Hartley Act is a United States federal law that restricts the activities and power of labor unions. It was enacted by the 80th United States Congress over the veto of President Harry S. Truman, becoming law on June 23, 1947.
69LY7 TIL in 2023 a man collected several discarded urine bottles from overworked Amazon employees, released them back onto Amazon rebranded as "Release Energy" and become a #1 Bestseller
epgl4 TIL about the black hole information paradox, a conflict in physics between quantum mechanics and general relativity. The latter says that matter which falls into a black hole is lost when the black hole evaporates, but this violates the principle of information conservation in quantum mechanics.
kyRE TIL in 1958, the Chinese captured a US Sidewinder missile just four days after it was introduced into combat when it got stuck in a Chinese jet during a dogfight with Taiwan aircraft. It was reverse-engineered into the Soviet AA-2 Atoll (K-13) missile and used against US planes in Vietnam.