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TIL Walt Disney has won more Oscars than anyone else, 22 in total

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w8Lo TIL that there are about 200 dead frozen bodies on Mount Everest. Many of which you must pass to get to the summit. Some are used as waypoints… yes, there are pics.
6Eb8Z TIL about Gordon, or "Whipped Peter", an enslaved African American. The pictures of his scourged back provided Northerners with visual evidence of brutal treatment of slaves. Abolitionists distributed the pictures throughout the United States and internationally to show the abuses of slavery.
JM6v TIL PayPal Forced An Online Buyer To Destroy An Antique Violin To Get His Money Back After He Buyer Claimed It Wasn’t What He Wanted
6v4m TIL in 1910, brothers Bud and Temple Abernathy traveled alone on horseback from their ranch in Oklahoma to NYC. Their cross-country journey took 74 days to complete, spanning 2000 miles. After arriving, they bought a car and drove back home. Bud was five years old at the time; Temple was nine.
lJX1 TIL during the Cold War, President Nixon devised a strategy to make the USSR think he was crazy and capable of launching nukes at any moment. It was called the “Madman Theory”.