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TIL that until the 1960s, men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland because it did not meet the standards of Disney’s unwritten code dress

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N7Ol8 TIL that a zookeeper secretly grew a cannabis plantation inside the rhino enclosure at an Austrian zoo for years. He was the only one who had access to the enclosure and police made the discovery after a tip from a drug user.
aAQM TIL that famed aviator, Charles Lindbergh, once recieved a Nazi medal, and that when speaking of him, Roosevelt remarked that “if I should die tomorrow, I want you to know this, I am absolutely convinced Lindbergh is a Nazi.”
gMx77 TIL A bizarre incident involving a fictitious write-in candidacy occurred in the small town of Picoazá, Ecuador in 1967. A company ran a series of campaign-themed advertisements for a foot powder called Pulvapies. Pulvapies ended up receiving the most votes in the election
b6Ox4 TIL in 2009, Benjamin Moody cracked the signing key to a TI-83+ calculator in 73 days on a 1.9 GHz dual-core processor, allowing users to flash their own OS. In 1999 same algorithm required a Cray supercomputer and 8000 MIPS-years of computing time to factorize a similar 512-bit key.
VBJp4 TIL Roy Orbison's I Drove All Night wasn't released until years after his death, for a Super Mario World-themed compilation album called Nintendo: White Knuckle Scorin' promoting childhood literacy in memory of a talent agent who died in a helicopter crash with Stevie Ray Vaughan