Post * e0XM4 — Curious Curator

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TIL Breyer’s can no longer call their product “Ice cream” because of the number of additives and the low amount of milk and cream. It is a “Frozen Dairy Dessert” or “Frozen Dessert”

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xVyG7 TIL the origin of 'Shrimp on the Barbie' is from an early '80s Visit Australia commercial starring Paul Hogan before he was famous. (Commercial in comments).

jNOXj TIL "1984", the commercial that introduced the Apple Macintosh during the 1984 Super Bowl, was directed by Ridley Scott

OG9g TIL that C.S Lewis, the author of The Chronicles of Narnia, became an atheist when he was 15, but was converted back to Christianity by JRR Tolkien, the author of Lord of The Rings

b9rXQ TIL in 2018, a kitten named Pawfficer Donut was sworn in to the Troy, Michigan PD's "Feline Unit" to perform community outreach for the department as well as raise awareness for animal adoption. She replaced another police cat named Pawfficer Badges who got feline leukemia.

M9vK TIL that the movie, U-571, states that Americans were responsible for capturing the first enigma machine. The truth is that the first enigma machine was captured by the British, 7 months before the Americans entered the war.