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TIL that United Airlines is the only airline that operates routes on many islands in Micronesia and the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean

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b9NKj TIL that despite Disney claiming that Steamboat Willie was the "first synchronized sound cartoon", the actual first cartoon to feature synchronized sound was the Fleischer Studios "My Old Kentucky Home" in 1926, 2 years before Steamboat Willie was released
JgrQ TIL that Jerry Lewis made a movie in 1972 where he plays a clown in a concentration camp, and leads kids on a train to a gas chamber. It has never seen the light of day.
M71RK TIL about the Kalakuta Republic, which was a communal compound in Lagos, Nigeria owned by nigerian musician and activist Fela Kuti. It was later destroyed by the Nigerian Military in 1977
9xPp TIL: Monet had surgery on his left eye enabling him to see ultra violet light
nevd9 TIL For about 25 or 30 years Harlem was the largest urban black neighbourhood in the world. Of the 100 most influential African Americans, 41 of them came from Harlem