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TIL In the 1950s Mickey Mouse sold speed to Africa

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g5b7 TIL a working-class couple in Harlem with no expertise amassed a collection of art worth over $10 million by slowly buying works directly from up-and-coming artists. Their strategy? “We bought what we liked”
Raea TIL Uganda has an Anti-Human Sacrifice Taskforce due to the amount of people being killed by witch-doctors
BjLK TIL that, due to a wartime shortage of copper, the Manhattan Project borrowed almost 15,000 tons of silver from the US Treasury to make wiring for the electromagnets in isotope-separating mass spectrometers. The wire, worth over a billion dollars at the time, was removed and returned after the war.
9ogM TIL The samurai scene in Kill Bill where The Bride fights against the Crazy 88 was so bloody that the MPAA wanted director Quentin Tarantino to cut it in order to maintain an R rating. To get around it, he altered the colors in the scene to black and white.
nnwY TIL Paul McCartney earns $400,000 a year off his Christmas song, which is widely regarded as the worst song he ever recorded.