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TIL The reason most early animation characters had white gloves was because it was in reference to people doing blackface and jazz musicians of the time.

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JYBBj TIL Tom Selleck was cast as Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark but had to drop out due to his commitment to do the Magnum PI pilot, so the role went to Harrison Ford. Production on Magnum was delayed for over 6 months by a writers' strike, which would have enabled Selleck to complete Raiders
x6JbD TIL the longest word in the English language has 189,819 letters and takes about three and a half hours to pronounce. It is the chemical name for the protein Titin. This word is so long that it is rarely, if ever, written out in full. (link to PDF of full name)
DQ9Qe TIL that on December 1, 1974, two commercial passenger jets crashed - TWA #514 in Loudon County, VA and the other, Northwest Orient #6231 outside NYC, amid a giant post-Thanksgiving winter storm. A total of 95 people were killed.
GYPRG TIL each year, small groups of eastern gray whales travel from the northern Pacific Ocean along the coast of western North America to the warm waters of southern California and northern Mexico and then back in what is considered the longest annual migration of any mammal, up to 22,000km/13,700miles.
kpnB TIL that Nguyen Cao Ty, who served as President and Vice President of South Vietnam during the Vietnam war, emigrated to the Unites States and ran a liquor store for several years after the fall of Saigon.