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TIL There is a Disney super-fan that has ridden the Cars ride, Radiator Springs Racers, over 10,000 times. He will often ride it in excess of 20 times a day.

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b6jZj TIL that Guglielmo Marconi, inventor and wireless radio pioneer, was a longtime member of Italy's fascist party, and, as president of the Royal Academy of Italy, did not allow any Jewish students to be admitted during his entire tenure.
GANr4 TIL that in 2014 planning permission was granted to turn a disused Victorian building in London’s East End into a “Museum of Women’s History”. Locals were shocked the next year when the museum was unveiled as the “Jack the Ripper Museum”, leading to numerous protests
W7RR8 TIL 40% of white medical trainees believed black people having thicker skin or less sensitive nerve endings in a 2016 survey
JYWkv TIL That male ducks doesn't quack.
ZpDpa TIL: USC removed their John Wayne exhibit because of the bigoted remarks he had made during his life.