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TIL that Walt Disney testified before the House of Un-American Activities Committee in 1947. He accused former employees of communism leading to some being blacklisted in Hollywood.

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78L1O TIL about the device ADE 651, which was described by its maker, ATSC, as being powered through the user's static electricity to detect explosives and drugs thanks to "programmed substance detection cards". It was bought in Iraq, Pakistan and the USA before the fraud was discovered
9Y7dm TIL the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation donated $4M to help stop malaria in a plan to create genetically modified non-biting male mosquitoes released to mate with malaria-carrying wild females, giving birth to progeny that dies before reaching the human biting age.
6BNm TIL, New Rome Ohio, a small town with 60 residents and 14 police officers, raised nearly $400,000 annually from speeding tickets.
1a7Ed TIL that Pope Francis and Pope John Paul the Second are honorary members of the Harlem Globetrotters
0XwR TIL there is a railroad station in Kinokawa, Japan whose Station Master is a cat.