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TIL that Walt Disney held the patent for Technicolor for two years, making him the only animator allowed to make color animated films!

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W8Wd TIL when the 1979 film The China Syndrome, about a coverup at a nuclear plant, was released, it was denounced as a ‘character assassination of an entire industry’. 12 days later, the Three Mile Island nuclear accident occurred.
6Ev9X TIL in France, it’s against the law for grocery stores to throw away food. It must either be composted or donated to charity.
R79e7 TIL Entry-level animators earn around 200¥ per drawing — less than $2, with a single drawing that can take more than an hour. Work conditions are grim, an animator’s suicide was classified a work related incident after investigators found he had worked over 600 hrs in the month leading to his death.
ANb4d TIL that the Spanish word "salsa" just means sauce and not the specific tomato based chip dip that English speakers normally associate it with. So "pizza sauce" is just "salsa de pizza".
R7aXQ TIL that although women weren't legally allowed to fight in the Civil War, it is estimated that somewhere around 400 women disguised themselves as men and fought