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TIL: That two days before the outbreak of WWII, the BBC was taken off air; the final broadcast being the Mickey Mouse cartoon, "Mickey's Gala Premier". BBC Television returned at 3pm on 7th June 1946 and twenty minutes later, aired the same Mickey Mouse cartoon that they had broadcast in 1939.

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