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TIL Barbie was based on a 1940's comic strip about a buxom gold digging escort named Lili. Mattel copied the design from a adult novelty toy version of the character.

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16M6W TIL the Wenja language from Far Cry Primal is designed to be a hypothetical ancestor of Proto-Indo-European, the reconstructed common ancestor of many modern languages
oBoRW TIL Baby Owls Sleep Face Down As Their Heads Are Too Heavy
1jBr TIL that in the memorable Saved By The Bell episode where Jessie gets addicted to caffeine pills, writers had initially planned to make her addicted to speed. However NBC vetoed the idea; feeling that the topic was “too serious” for a Saturday morning kid’s show.
0w99j TIL the atheistic Cult of Reason was sponsored by the French revolutionary govt. to replace Catholicism. Notre Dame's altar was dismantled, and provocatively dressed women posed inside representing virtues like Reason. Cemetery gates in France had to bear the inscription "Death is an eternal sleep."
LQA00 TIL Neapolitan ice cream was invented in Prussia, not Italy