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TIL that ‘Gangnam style’ was intended to poke fun at people who put on airs and pretended to be fashionable or classy, like people from the Gangnam district of Seoul

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nNeo TIL Rottweilers were known as “Rottweil butchers’ dogs” because they were used to herd livestock and pull carts laden with butchered meat and other products to market.
WPPd TIL Lyndon Johnson announced his hiring of Gerri Whittington, the first African-American White House secretary, by arranging for her to appear on the TV game show What’s My Line, wherein contestants attempted to guess her profession.
7QPO TIL that being a “cynic” originally meant you thought the purpose of life was to live virtuously in agreement with Nature, rejecting all conventional desires for wealth, power, sex, and fame; living a simple life free from all possessions.
5YaPk TIL that herring fish communicate with each other underwater through flatulence or fart, the noise is always accompanied by a stream of bubbles
6EpgW TIL that Michelangelo's statue of David is supposed to be the biblical figure of David, from David and Goliath. He can be seen holding a stone and a sling.