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TIL The Man That Invented Kwanzaa Went to Prison For “Felonious Assault and False Imprisonment” for Torturing Several Women

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9wMM TIL that Walt Disney slowed down a cartoon to 12 cycles and the viewers became sick for days
XXXk TIL that the reason the movie industry is largely based in Hollywood, California was to evade the monopoly that Thomas Edison had at the time. Anyone not following his rules in his domain would be sued out of business.
dV6r TIL the most expensive material on the planet is antimatter worth $62.5 trillion per gram
W7vXo TIL that South College, a private for-profit college in the United States, has locations throughout the American South but is actually named after its current owner / chancellor. In 1989 it was acquired by businessman Stephen A. South.
5VAAr Today I learned there is another dwarf planet further than Pluto called Gongong.