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TIL the Brits got smacked off of gin just to spite the French

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v1WeB TIL, in Disney's Mulan (1998), Mulan touches her hair a lot because the animators noticed that Mulan’s voice actress Ming-Na Wen, touched her hair a lot while recording. So, they added it to the character.
0wedN TIL that politician Boss Tweed was brought down by Thomas Nast's cartoons, which painted him as the embodiment of corruption. Tweed said to aides, “Let's stop them damned pictures. I don't care so much what the papers write about—my constituents can't read—but damn it, they can see pictures.”
EgOvw TIL Southerners opposed the casting of Englishwoman Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind. In anticipation of the backlash, producer David O. Selznick wrote a letter to Ed Sullivan, then an entertainment journalist, with a list of bullet points defending Leigh's casting.
Oowog TIL the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre were represented in court by John Adams, who successfully defended most of them against charges of murder.