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TIL Denial of the Nanking massacre has become a staple of Japanese nationalism.

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npWW TIL that in 1997 Morgan Freeman offered to cover the cost of prom for a Mississippi school that held two racially segregated proms every year, provided that the one Freeman would be covering would just be one racially integrated prom. This offer was refused until 2008.
e404 TIL John Lasseter, one of the three founding fathers of Pixar, was fired from Disney for trying to create three dimensional cartoon images. Lucasfilm hired him promptly afterwards for being innovative. Disney would later buy both Lucasfilms and Pixar for billions of dollars.
gMwk9 TIL about the Cod wars which were a series of confrontations between Iceland and the U.K. over fishing rights in the North Atlantic. There were three in total all of which ended in Icelandic victories.
EMep TIL The jungle in Disneyland’s Jungle Cruise is now it’s own fully functioning ecosystem and no longer requires landscaping.
Br7my TIL That Blackbeard was shot 5 times and stabbed 20 times in the ambush that killed him, and it took someone slitting his throat from behind to finally end him.