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TIL that the Pu Pu Platter was originally Hawaiian. The large plate of Hawaiian appetizers reached mainland US by 1934, and it was popularized during the Tiki bar craze of the '50s/'60s. The earliest known example of an American-Chinese restaurant serving a Pu Pu Platter wasn't until 1969.

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E1REW TIL: The currency US-Dollar is indirectly named after the Czech town Jáchymov. The town's German name is Joachimsthal and the coins produced here were called "Thaler". The Dutch called those coins "Daler", which then later turned into "Dollar".
awPd0 TIL that The Ancient Egyptians believed that the false door was a threshold between the worlds of the living and the dead and through which a deity or the spirit of the deceased could enter and exit.
4vXa TIL there is a class above the upper class called the TOP class (aka old money), whose behavior varies from the typical wealthy person with unspoken codes between members (based on Paul Fussell’s book).
4kkgJ TIL that almost all chicken meat is female.
X0jv6 TIL the 2nd-century BC Venus de Milo statue was discovered in 1820 by a farmer on the Greek island of Milos while working his fields. A French naval officer saw its value and arranged the acquisition. The statue was given to King Louis XVIII, who donated it to the Louvre, where it remains today