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TIL Barbie’s physical appearance was modeled on the German Bild Lilli doll, a risqué gag gift for men based upon a cartoon character featured in the West German newspaper Bild Zeitung.

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D1l0J TIL The Eureka Moment (also known as 'Aha! moment) refers to the common human experience of suddenly understanding a previously incomprehensible problem or concept. Some research suggests it acts as a memory advantage. It is unclear where exactly it occurs in the brain.
mxRPp TIL that purple Skittles are grape flavoured in the USA rather than blackcurrant (in the UK) due to a ban introduced in 1629. Although it's been lifted, only 0.1% of american have eaten a blackcurrant.
kQn5 TIL Ron Howard directed his first feature film for Roger Corman, famous for squeezing production budgets. Years later on Apollo 13 he cast Corman as a senator who complains about the high cost of moon missions.
wLPOJ TIL the phrase "no strings attached” is directly tied to 18th century fabric merchants who would mark flaws in woven cloth by tying small strings to the bottom of the bolts at the locations where flaws were present.
6EYjY TIL: Diem, the US-backed Vietnamese president, got 605,025 votes from 450,000 voters in Saigon in 1955