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Today I learned that the Tiki Room at Disneyland was originally intended to be a restaurant, and was also the first fully air-conditioned building at Disneyland.

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bBVN TIL that beer was invented in Iran 7000 years ago. Today, it’s outlawed there.
ra5e TIL that a German U-boat sunk in 1945 was raised in 1957 and returned to service.
5YmmB TIL After Minnie Cox, the first black female postmaster was pressured out of her post, President Theodore Roosevelt continued to pay her salary and punished the town by rerouting their mail 30 miles away, in the end the atmosphere became so hostile that Mrs. Cox left for her own safety.
84VZ TIL When someone called the black chauffeur of Alice Roosevelt (daughter of Teddy) a “black bastard”, the driver took it in stride. Roosevelt, however, leaned out the window and shouted “Shut up, you white son of a bitch.”
l6JB TIL the phrase ‘Politically Correct’ was coined by Mao Zedong.