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TIL a barcode reader actually reads the white space, not the black

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4AJR TIL that Disney released a movie during World War II called “Der Fuerer’s Face” which depicted Donald Duck having a nightmarish time in the Nazi Regime. It is the only Donald Duck film to win an Academy Award.
yPBa TIL The classic beetle was manufactured by VW until 2003
O9W1 TIL: In 1976, Eric Clapton made a speech at a concert encouraging the British audience to vote for Enoch Powell, saying that Britain needed to “get the foreigners out, get the wogs out, get the coons out”, and repeatedly shouting “Keep Britain White”. In response, Rock Against Racism was formed.
jNabn TIL that the largest amount of money ever stolen in a mugging is £291 million, stolen from a Bank of England courier in 1990 in an operation that involved the Five Families, the IRA, and Columbian drug lords
W7X19 TIL that King Henry VIII disliked ponies. In the Breed of Horses Act of 1540, he ordered that any stallions shorter than 15 hands high, mares shorter than 13 hands high, and 2-year-old colts under 11.2 hands high were to be killed. Private owners were also forced to kill all of their shorter ponies.