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TIL that D.W. Griffiths, who made the racist pro-KKK film “The Birth of a Nation”, responded to his critics with subsequent films that preached social justice and the first ever movie about an interracial love story.

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R5VP6 TIL that in “once upon a studio”. When Mickey speaks to a portrait of Walt Disney, playing in the background was Disney's favorite song: "Feed the Birds”. The producers also got Richard Sherman to record a new version for the film, using the same piano and in the same old office of Walt Disney.
5Vdkr TIL that Exeter Cathedral in England has a cat door that was carved in 1598; the cats were employed to keep down the population of mice, who came into the cathedral because the gears of clock were greased with animal fat
1axJX TIL that Exxon used to be known as Esso, a phonetic spelling of "S.O." for Standard Oil after it was forced to break up into 34 smaller companies. It is still widely known as Esso outside the US.
7R5M TIL: Henry Ford doubled his workers wages to keep them from walking off the job, not so they could afford to buy his cars.
Yp5aG TIL The association between glasses and being elderly/weak/passive faded when Theodore Roosevelt was regularly photographed wearing his pince-nez glasses. Other famously bespectacled people of the era are the actor Harold Lloyd and the cricket player Ernest Killick.