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TIL former US president Jimmy Carter and Motown Records founder Berry Gordy are related by way of their great-grandfather James Thomas Gordy.

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WknYN TIL During WW II the US Army was aware that mail to soldiers was critical for morale, but overwhelmed with the volume and space it took to ship. So the resuscitated a British/Eastman Kodak method where every letter was photographed, and the film was shipped, then printed. It was called V Mail.
1QwW TIL Pocahontas is arguably the only Disney Princess to have dumped another character, and is definitely the only Disney Princess to have dumped the same character twice.
EZNx TIL for the “horse of a different color” effect on The Wizard of Oz, horses were tinted with lemon, cherry and grape Jello powder, which the horses would persistently try to lick off.
9YKyB TIL that when King Alfonso of Castile died of bubonic plague on 27 March 1350, he became the only reigning monarch to die in The Black Death.
J5bj TIL Cooking show celebrity Alton Brown was the cinematographer for the music video for R.E.M.’s “The One I Love.”