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TIL Walt Disney originally planned to have The Wizard of Oz be the company’s second animated feature film after Snow White but the film rights were scooped up by MGM

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p8QJN TIL the Germans used remote controlled boats during World War I which they loaded with up to 1,500 pounds of explosives and drove directly at enemy ships.
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