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TIL that Salvador Dalí made a cartoon for Disney

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R879 TIL that one unique danger of working in a tryworks (whaling industry furnace) was that a rotting pregnant whale could fill with gas and burst, “ejecting a fetus the size of a motor vehicle with sufficient force to kill a man”
D1wEp TIL that President Roosevelt stated that if the atomic bomb had been ready in time, he would have ordered the military to drop them on Germany.
x6N75 TIL after William Jennings Bryan finished his Cross of Gold speech, the audience was completely silent. Bryan said that it was "really painful" and that he thought he had failed, but when he returned to his seat the entire audience went into pandemonium and it took 25 minutes to restore order.
PeNJ TIL the NCAA once said “post-season bowls had no place in college football “because they serve no sound educational ends, and such promotions merely trade upon intercollegiate football for commercial purposes.”
90eD TIL Nickelodeon buried a time capsule in 1992 with stuff like a Game Boy, Reebok Pump shoes, Home Alone on VHS, and Gak. It will be opened in 2042.