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TIL The Superman Radio Show of the 1940’s Exposed the KKK’s Secrets, Leading to Public Ridicule.

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e0ZgL TIL The false rumor of Joseph Kennedy being a bootlegger didn’t surface until the late 1960s when conspiracy theorists were looking for reasons why organized crime may have played a role in the assassination of JFK.
loaBa TIL it took 750 artists making over 2 million sketches to create the 1937 Disney animation, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The final movie was comprised of 250,000 individual drawings.
yV7DX Til if a bear injures or consumes humans it must be euthanized because a bear that loses its fear of humans is a dangerous animal
KORJ TIL that the women of Utah gained the right to vote 50 years before the U.S. itself, in 1870. But since Utah women voted in ways favorable to polygamy, the U.S. Congress revoked this right in 1887.
b9kbj TIL Donn Tatum was the first non-Disney family member to be president of Walt Disney Productions, following the death of Roy Disney in 1971. He played a major role in the creation of Walt Disney World Resort, EPCOT Center and Tokyo Disneyland