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TIL Winston Churchill had very disturbing and disparaging views on race, especially regarding Indians.

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b6WKE TIL that Phil Collins originally wrote “You’ll Be In My Heart” as a lullaby for his daughter, Lily Collins.
yY8M TIL Poor white southerners in American South, who were viewed in the North as lazy and stupid, were actually victim to a hookworm epidemic that turned them into listless imbeciles. Up to 40% were infected in the early 1900s.
epvJJ TIL in 2014, the Association of Shinto Shrines opened a Shinto shrine in Serravale, San Marino. It was financed through the sale of gold coins. It is one of two Shinto shrines built in Europe.
9YK8B TIL that Walt Disney took out multiple loans to finance Snow White, evening mortgaging his own house to pay for it. At the time, insiders in the film industry thought the film would bomb and called it “Disney’s Folly”. Even Walt’s wife, Lillian, thought it would bomb.
1bMD TIL the call of the American bald eagle frequently heard in movies actually belongs to the red-tailed hawk.