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TIL Walt Disney was so fixed on having semi-retired actress Jane Darwell appear in Mary Poppins as the bird woman that he personally drove to her retirement home to ask her after she originally refused

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d1VK TIL tasers shoot confetti with tiny serial numbers printed on it so that it can be linked to the person who fired it.
B45b TIL Isaac Asimov’s favorite short story that he wrote was “The Last Question”, an interesting take on the end of the universe
gMmvL Today I learned that used tennis balls from Wimbledon are recycled as housing for harvest mice to help them protect them.
8JnK TIL Wealthy Chinese Sometimes Hire Body Doubles To Serve Prison Sentences
ONe TIL after winning 4 gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, African-American track star Jesse Owens was not invited to the White House or recognized in any way by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Instead, it was Adolf Hitler who gave Owens a special commemorative gift.