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May by the Numbers

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$15,000: The amount of money from investors to start Walt Disney’s new animation studio, Laugh-O-Gram Studios in Kansas City, incorporated on May 23, 1922.

8: Birthday of President Harry S. Truman of Independence, MO, born in 1884.

27: Stations to rent a bicycle in Downtown Kansas City. See KansasCity.BCycle.com. May is National Bike Month.

1920: The year Kansas City-based company Hallmark began selling Mother’s Day cards.

15: Author L. Frank Baum, creator of the beloved The Wizard of Oz series set in Kansas, was born this day in 1856.

13: May is the only month in 2016 with a Friday the 13th.

21: Date of the full moon, known as the flower moon in May.

4.41: Average amount of rain, in inches, Kansas City gets in May.

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