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Excuse me…Dr. Pepper?

Five Things You Need To Know for Friday, December 2, 2022

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Five Fun Facts for Friday:

1. In 1840, a man named Friedrich Frobel first coined the term "kindergarten" because he believed that children should be nurtured "like plants in a garden."
2. The word "gymnasium" comes from the Greek verb "gymnazo" . . . which means "to train naked."
3. The guy who created the thesaurus, Peter Mark Roget, came up with it when he was 73 years old . . . after he retired from his career as a doctor, scientist, and inventor.
He kept on editing new editions of it until he died 17 years later.
4. There WAS a real Dr. Pepper. A pharmacist named Charles Alderton invented the soda, and his boss named it after Dr. Charles T. Pepper, who he'd worked with earlier in his career.
He also may've had a relationship with Pepper's daughter.
5. The original title for "Risky Business" was "White Boys Off the Lake" . . . but the studio eventually wanted something catchier.

Five Things You Need To Know for Friday, December 2, 2022