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TIL… There is not a single publicity photo of Walt Disney with a cigarette in his hand, even though he was an extremely heavy smoker and died of lung cancer.

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PYO0g TIL in 1941, when a General asked Winston Churchill for more men to man Antiaircraft guns, Churchill replied "No, I can’t spare any men, you’ll have to use women." Mary Churchill (18), Winston Churchill's youngest daughter was among the first to join and rose to the rank of Junior Commander in 1944.
9wLWB TIL about the 1951 mass poisoning in Pont-Saint-Esprit, France, where over 250 people experienced hallucinations, madness, and severe illness after eating contaminated bread. The incident resulted in 7 deaths, and the cause was later attributed to ergot, a fungus found in rye flour.
VMva0 TIL that in India an estimated 1.2 million people have died of snake bites since 2000.
4o6g TIL a Polish Wikipedia user got his entire city banned from editing for 3 days due to him posting pictures of penises to pages related to Catholicism and Polish politics
jNBEM TIL that Massachusetts once banned Christmas for 22 years because people celebrated too hard--drinking too much, partying in the streets, and breaking into houses