TIL In 1951 Thelma Howard was hired as a maid for Walt & Lillian Disney. Walt would gift her shares of Disney stock every X-mas for the next 30 yrs. She died in 1994 that's when it was discovered she still had all 192,000 shares valued at $9,000,000. It went to disadvantaged kids & her disabled son

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poopellar on April 11st, 2019 at 13:09 UTC »

My boss gives me shares during Christmas too. Shares of his shit attitude.

nuclearswan on April 11st, 2019 at 11:18 UTC »

According to the article, Walt called her, “the real Mary Poppins.”

Ayatollah_Bahloni on April 11st, 2019 at 09:17 UTC »

At today's prices, those shares would be worth $22,494,720.00