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TIL that Walt Disney created multiple fake companies (like M.T. Lott Real Estate) to buy Florida land in the 1960s. This let him acquire what is now Disney World while avoiding suspicion and keeping prices low. The stores on Main Street shop windows are the names of those original companies.

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M7b1W TIL that John Hinckley Jr., who shot President Reagan in 1981, bought his .22 Rohm RG-14 revolver from a pawn shop on Elm Street in Dallas, Texas, the exact same street President John F. Kennedy was assassinated at in 1963.
e0ekk TIL that whale oil was used in transmission fluid in automobiles until the late 1970s.
JGpQ TIL that while the real “Santa Claus” may have been from Turkey, Father Christmas is actually a version of Odin, and the eight reindeer pulling the sleigh represent the eight legs of Sleipnir, Odin’s horse.
QODk TIL that when the character Batwoman was first introduced in 1956, it was to give Batman a love interest after accusations of his homosexuality. When Batwoman was reinvented in 2006, she was explicitly a lesbian.
6nyY TIL Cats only meow towards Humans. In the wild they never meow.