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TIL Cindarella is based on an old Greek fairy tale about a slave-girl who marries the pharaoh.

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OoR0X TIL the surfing term "goofy foot" refers to those that surf with their right foot forward. The term originates from a 1937 Disney cartoon where Goofy surfs with his right foot forward.
9arX TIL men had to swim nude in all grades of public school gym class up until the early 1970s.
4knvo TIL in the 1880s, the Harvard Observatory director was frustrated with his staff, and would say "My Scottish maid could do better!" So, he hired his Scottish maid. Williamina Fleming ran a team for decades, classified tens of thousands of stars, & discovered white dwarfs and the Horsehead Nebula.
4xRX TIL that the film adaptation of The Cat in the Hat was so poorly received that Seuss’ widow forbade any further live-action adaptations of her husband’s work
Zp7YQ TIL the punctuation following standard measurements, like 5’7”, aren’t quotation marks — they’re primes.