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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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5YGW9 TIL: If your kids want to have a lemonade stand in Canada's capital city, Ottawa, the sign must be in English and French, as well 7% of the profits must be donated to charity.
xVaOk TIL about a soccer ball that survived the Challenger disaster in 1986. 30 years later it finally reached space and flew in the ISS for 173 days and almost 3000 trips around the earth.
74bM TIL of Freddie Oversteegen, a girl with the Dutch Resistance who would seduce nazis and lead them into the woods where they would be killed
NnN1 TIL that the most sexually arousing aroma for women is a mix of Good & Plenty candy and cucumber, according to a 1995 study
ydl TIL Frano Selak survived a train derailing into a river, a bus crashing and falling into another river, falling off a plane whose doors had blown off and living by landing on a hay stack, got hit by a bus, and survived a car explosion twice, and was then lucky enough to win the lottery in 2004.