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Stacy Condradt\u00a0and Mental_Floss<\/a> present 15 Intriguing Facts About Walt Disney<\/a>. \u00a0Here are three of my favorites…<\/p>\n 2. HE WAS A HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUT.<\/span><\/strong> 12. HIS HOUSEKEEPER WAS A VERY WEALTHY WOMAN. 14. ONE OF HIS LAST WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS WAS RATHER MYSTERIOUS\u2014AND INVOLVED KURT RUSSELL. Stacy Condradt\u00a0and Mental_Floss present 15 Intriguing Facts About Walt Disney. \u00a0Here are three of my favorites… 2. HE WAS A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-trivia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16989,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16988\/revisions\/16989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWalt was just 16 when he left school to join the Red Cross Ambulance Corps, wanting to do his part in World War I\u2014but because he was just shy of the minimum age requirement of 17, he forged a different date on his birth certificate. Disney didn\u2019t see much action, however. He was sent to France in late 1918, not long after the armistice was signed that ended the fighting. He still helped where he could, driving Red Cross officials and performing other tasks, before he was discharged in 1919.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Thelma Howard was the Disney family\u2019s live-in housekeeper and cook for three decades. She was hired in 1951 and quickly became part of the family, even making sure the fridge was well-stocked with hot dogs\u2014Walt liked to eat them cold as a snack when he got home from work. As part of her annual Christmas gift, the Disneys gave her stock in the company. She never did anything with them\u2014and by the time she died in 1994, the woman was a multimillionaire because of them. She\u00a0left\u00a0nearly $4.5 million to poor and disabled children, and roughly the same amount to her disabled son.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Shortly before his death, Disney wrote \u201cKurt Russell\u201d on a piece of paper. It was later found on his desk, and, according to Disney historian Dave Smith, the notes were among Disney’s last few written words. At the time of Disney\u2019s death, Russell was a largely unknown child actor working for the studio. No one has any idea what Disney was referring to with his note\u2014including Kurt Russell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"