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TIL that Walt Disney believed to have introduced "Donald Duck" character after hearing about famous duck-out of Australian cricketer Donald Bradman through newspapers in US as Bradman's duck became a hot-topic in across US. Bradman scored duck in Australia's cricket tour of North America in 1932.

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