In addition to being a singer and actress, Judy Garland was a florist and had her own shop on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. President Theodore Roosevelt didn't like the nickname "Teddy." Baloney – more formally known as bologna sausage – gets its distinctive flavor from myrtle berries. The dunce cap originated with John Duns Scotus, a 13th-century priest and proponent of pointy hats. Inspired by wizard hats, he thought they acted as a reverse funnel for knowledge, with wisdom flowing into the pointed tip and spreading into the brain.

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