ultragoodname

ultragoodname t1_jeb2134 wrote on March 30, 2023 at 6:40 PM

Reply to comment by DavoTB in TIL that Walt Disney World began as "The Florida Project". Dummy corporations were used, by Walt Disney Productions, to buy up 27,000 acres of land to avoid bursts of land speculation in the Orlando area. Early rumors assumed possible development by NASA, Ford, the Rockefellers, and Howard Hughes. by jdward01

The land were they were originally gonna put the park is now a bunch of suburbs

ultragoodname t1_ixqthzs wrote on November 25, 2022 at 4:26 PM

Reply to comment by BoredDanishGuy in TIL the first media report about the shift from lighters to the cellphone was a U2 concert in Chicago in 2005. by PlasterBaby

I traveled through Europe with lighters in my bag