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TIL-When Walt Disney was making Snow White as the first full length animated cartoon there were concerns that the “bright colors of the animations may damage people’s eyesight”.

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kOgnd TIL it's possible for a bot to trick the Turing Test into thinking it's human simply by claiming a foreign mother-tongue
a5RM TIL that in 1978, over 500 silent films were discovered buried in the Yukon permafrost, including footage of the scandalous 1919 World Series.
LQLAP TIL About The Devils Rope Barbed Wire Museum which is housed in a converted brassiere factory, located in McLean, Texas. It was officially opened in 1991 and focuses on barbed wire and its history. The museum is thought to have the largest collection of published material concerning barbed wire.
V9x4 TIL that Alan Turing, the man who broke the enigma code during WWII, is estimated to have shortened the war by over two years, and to have saved over 14 million lives. He was later charged for his homosexuality and was forced to undergo chemical castration.
154W TIL when Columbus first sailed to America his ship’s captain (Rodrigo de Triana) spotted land first but Columbus later claimed he had already seen it a few hours earlier, thereby claiming for himself the lifetime pension that had been promised by King Ferdinand to the first person to sight land.