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TIL Walt Disney used shell companies and fake names to acquire the land in Orlando that would become Disney World in 1971.

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8ZMZ TIL there is a village named Paris in Russia, in 2005 there was constructed a 1:5 replica of the Eiffel Tower.
0wlxj TIL of Mitsuyasu Maeno, a right-wing Japanese porn actor who while dressed as WW2 kamikaze pilot made a suicide attack with his airplane into the house of ultranationalist Yoshio Kodama.
wYXo TIL a flower called Amborella trichopoda is the oldest Flowering Plant of Earth. They are about 130 Million Years Old! It is the closest we have got to a living ancestral flowering plant.
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