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TIL Walt Disney had his mustache accidentally lit on fire by the animator Ken Anderson. Ken was worried that he’d be fired, and it was showing in his work, so Walt shaved his mustache and spent the week eating lunch with Ken so he wouldn’t feel so alienated.

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