Post * 6EWmm — Curious Curator

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TIL that Twinkies switched from their original banana cream filling to their now standard vanilla cream filling due to the rationing of bananas during WW2.

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narr TIL one mathematician, inspired by Helen of Troy, proposed a standard unit of measurement for beauty called the “millihelen.” The millihelen is jokingly used as the measuring unit how much beauty is required to launch a ship.

nepKd TIL that sausages have been commonly referred to as "dogs" since the 1800s due to a belief that sausage makers used dog meat in their sausages. Consumption of dog meat was common in Germany up to the early 1900s so these suspicion was "occasionally justified".

dxZQ TIL that the (rare) offspring of a donkey and a zebra is called a “zonkey.” One was born “in an act of love” in Florence a few months ago.

g1aW TIL that the average height of a Dutch man increased by almost 10 inches since 1856

e0mKJ TIL in the movie "Home Alone" the producers thought it would be too mean to use a real girl for the pic of Buzz’s unattractive girlfriend so they used the art director’s son