Post * epvw4 — Curious Curator

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TIL in 1945, the State Department commissioned an official Spanish version of the American National Anthem

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mDyO TIL Barbie’s original design was based on a German adult gag-gift prostitute doll named Lilli

VvPk TIL that a man quit his job to test a theory that if you deliberately practice something for 10,000 hours you can become an overachiever in any field. He is now a 4 handicap and 3 off becoming a PGA Tour Professional Golfer, having never played prior to this project.

QoxE TIL that the original ketchup was a fish sauce and based on the Chinese word for that sauce, and it turns out that in Chinese, “ketchup” also happens to be a homophone for “tomato sauce”, which is what ketchup became.

m1DLY TIL that Caesar was just a normal family name that originally meant ‘having thick hair’. Due to the exploits of Julius Caesar it became a generic title for Roman emperors and then influenced other languages like German (Kaiser), Russian (Tsar), and Arabic (Qayṣar)

78NBb TIL Andrea True, singer of the iconic disco song, "More, More, More," initially worked as an adult film star who appeared over fifty pornographic films during the 60's and70's.