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TIL Walt Disney's father, Elias, was born in Canada, but didn’t find out that he wasn’t actually a confirmed citizen of the U.S.A. until much later. It was discovered that Elias Disney was still considered an alien so he went through the process to become a naturalized American citizen in his 70s

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