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TIL Walt Disney's First Business venture was a Studio called "Laugh-O-Gram Studio" based out of Kansas City, MO and it went Bankrupt in less than three years

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0w8GA TIL of Noor Inayat Khan, an Indian woman who was posthumously awarded the George Cross for her service during WWII. She was the first female wireless operator to be parachuted into France to assist the French resistance. Later betrayed by a a member of the resistance, she would be executed in Dachau
R5Rkj TIL Henry Rollins has a 1tb harddrive full of diverse music that he brings everywhere to turn kids onto new types of music
b9RV4 TIL of Grigori Perelman, a Russian mathematician who proved the Poincaré conjecture (one of the Millennium Prize problems). He later quit his job, turned down the $1 million prize as well as the Fields Medal, and is thought to have withdrawn from the field of mathematics entirely.
VW8m TIL that during the Parsley Massacre, the Dominican soldiers would grab a parsley plant and ask what it was called. If the person couldn’t roll the R in the Spanish word (Perejil) they were executed. Up to 30,000 people might have been killed through that method.
Z8d6Q TIL almost all Balinese people (men and women) are named one of just 4 names; Wayan, Made, Nyoman or Ketut. The name depends on the order of birth.