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TIL that Walt Disney accidentally "kidnapped" Richard Nixon by dispatching his monorail train before the Secret Service could get on. The agents ran after the train and attempted to jump onboard but the doors had already closed. Monorail pilot Bob Gurr was terrified; Nixon got a kick out of it.

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w4O1 TIL that there used to be a popular children’s game called “mumblety-peg.” Children would compete to see who could throw a knife into the ground closer to their own feet. The loser had to pick his knife out of the ground with his teeth. Impaling your foot was an automatic win.
xVxj1 TIL Frosty the Snowman was animated in Tokyo, making it, by definition, an anime. The same studio (Mushi Productions) also animated Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (because they're made with stop-motion, they don't count).
E1jJw TIL Dr. Seuss attended Oxford but never received a degree from there as he met his future wife, Helen Palmer, who encouraged him to drop out. Helen would commit suicide leaving Dr. Seuss without any children which is where he famously said "You have 'em, I'll entertain 'em".
0nGA TIL that Hebrew’s return to regular usage is unique in that there are no other examples of a “dead” language subsequently acquiring several million native speakers, and no other examples of a sacred language becoming a national language with millions of “first language” speakers.
5g8R TIL Donald Trump took out full-page newspaper ads in 1989 calling for the execution of 5 alleged rapists who were all minors and later turned out to be innocent