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TIL Walt Disney fired the creator of Goofy for starting a union!

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6E67J TIL Jules Verne's wrote a novel in 1863 which predicted gas-powered cars, fax machines, wind power, missiles, electric street lighting, maglev trains, the record industry, the internet, and feminism. It was lost for over 100 years after his publisher deemed it too unbelievable to publish.
Eg8lV TIL about the Lost Cause myth that originated after the Civil War by white Southerners to justify their defeat by downplaying slavery's role, celebrating an idealized South, and persisting through Confederate monuments and racial ideologies that ignore the true nature of slavery or the Civil War.
oME TIL a student designed the RECYCLING logo & got paid out a whopping $2500.
OGlv6 TIL the city of Boise, Idaho drops a 17-foot long potato for their New Year's celebration.
OQRL TIL the middle name of Nelson from the Simpsons is ‘Mandela’.