Post * dnZK — Curious Curator

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TIL A Listerine mouthwash ad from the 1920s coined the phrase, “Often a bridesmaid but never a bride” to describe women with bad breath.

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ADJlg TIL that Joan Jett's song "I Love Rock N' Roll" is actually a cover song. The original one was sung by a group called The Arrows.

OGk7L TIL Douglas Adams came up with the idea for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy while lying drunk in a field holding a copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to Europe.

7rQZZ TIL that DC comics has a supervillain named Captain Nazi, whose powers include super strength, speed, stamina, and the ability to fly by breathing a "special flying gas".

awVyb TIL there is an elephant named Koshik who spent much of his youth at Everland Zoo in South Korea where he learned to speak 5 words of Korean due to the fact he lacked social interactions with his own species and was lonely.

mxgrR TIL The bowler hat was the most popular in the American West, prompting Lucius Beebe to call the bowler, "the hat that won the West". The cowboy hat derives from the "Boss of the Plains" hat which was manufactured by J.B. Stetson in 1865 and was marketed to cowboys as a durable success symbol.