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TIL of the Disney centrifuge. In 1964, Walt Disney and author Ray Bradbury met for lunch and Disney brought up his idea for Disney World. Bradbury described it as a "Schweitzer’s centrifuge", which comes from “Do something wonderful; people may imitate it.”, attributed to Albert Schweitzer.

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