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TIL LION KING was considered the ‘B-movie’ during production and all the top Disney animators were working on POCAHONTAS

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d8wK7 TIL that Sojourner Truth's famous speech, "Ain't I a Woman", was altered by a white abolitionist, who rewrote her speech for publication in a stereotypical "southern black slave dialect". Truth actually grew up speaking Dutch and took pride in her "fairly correct English"
paB8 TIL Steve Jobs is buried in an unmarked grave
vPdyx TIL about the Kissinger death tontine and now someone has won "a selection of liquors from countries where Kissinger has overthrown the democratically elected leader."
N7Qgb TIL Samurais in Japan were concurrent with Cowboys in the American Old West
j6JPX TIL sitting U.S. President Harry Truman went for a 440-foot deep ride on captured German submarine U-2513 in 1946