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TIL: Vanilla sky was the only movie to get permission to shut down Times Square for any amount of time

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X00lk TIL Christina, the woman depicted in Andrew Wyeth's famous painting 'Christina's World,' had a neurodegenerative disease that paralyzed her from the waist down. Stubborn and self-reliant, she resisted the idea of using a wheelchair or crutches, instead preferring to crawl or drag herself.
OZ04 TIL in 1970, about 200 members of the Youth International Party, AKA Yippies, invaded and occupied Disneyland’s Tom Sawyer Island and had to be removed by riot police, causing the 2nd of only 4 unscheduled closings in Disneyland history.
8aDeV TIL that more than 380,000 African American soldiers served in the Army during WWI. THE U.S. Army wasn’t comfortable with the idea of training black men for combat, so they were assigned to train under/fight along side the French
VMZrD TIL Germany has 90 billion trees
wom91 TIL all the gold ever mined on Earth came from meteorites - not from the Earth's core.