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TIL Walt Disney brought live deer into his studio during the making of “Bambi” so the animators could study the real movements made by these animals.

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oRxWL TIL: Mariah Carrey hit the highest note ever sung live.
g7gW TIL that a handful of American revolutionary veterans survived long enough to have daguerreotypes taken of them
l7jG5 TIL the B-52D Stratofortress is the largest aircraft in history to score an air-to-air kill. Two North Vietnamese MiG-21s were shot down by B-52 tail gunners during Operation Linebacker II in December 1972.
N7DQM TIL the inventor of the bra, Caresse Crosby, came up with the idea because she didn’t want to wear a corset to a dance at age 19. She also had a dog named Clytoris.
e0xG6 TIL about Ferdinand Cheval, a French postman who spent 33 years of his life building his own palace using stones he collected on his daily mail trips. Although he wanted to be buried in it, the French Government refused, and he spent another 8 years building a mausoleum to complement it.