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ypsm t1_j22lgzb wrote
Reply to comment by Klin24 in TIL the original 1881 "Pinocchio" was a dark story that included the puppet's execution by hanging for his bad behavior (which included murdering Jiminy Cricket) by foodtower
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Bambi: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/24/bambi-is-even-bleaker-than-you-thought
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Hunchback of Notre Dame
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Pocohontas
Etc. I sometimes tell my friends that if Disney ever made Romeo & Juliet, they’d make the title characters live happily ever after.
ypsm t1_j0op4ud wrote
Reply to TIL That in 1774 James Cook charted Sandy Island off the coast of New Caledonia. Despite its' inclusion in official maps and charts for over two centuries in 2012 an Australian survey vessel proved the island had never actually existed and may have been a 'pumice raft' floating in the area. by GentPc
its’ is not a word. The word you were looking for is its.
ypsm t1_j24hpon wrote
Reply to comment by Matter_Infinite in TIL the original 1881 "Pinocchio" was a dark story that included the puppet's execution by hanging for his bad behavior (which included murdering Jiminy Cricket) by foodtower
No, I honestly didn’t know that, so thanks for the explanation! (I haven’t watched the straight-to-video sequels, though I hear Lion King 2 is pretty good.)