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Cream of tartar, Pasadena, and more than you ever cared to know about Amy Gordon
By Mr. Smarty Pants, Fri., Feb. 11, 2011
Cream of tartar (a cooking ingredient) is an acidic powder traditionally harvested from the insides of wine barrels.
Egyptians may have been the first to play a game resembling baseball, which they called "seker-hemat" ("batting the ball") in the 15th century BC. The sport has a minimal presence, if any, in modern Egypt.
Australian comedian Amy Gordon can play the kazoo with her vagina.
The village of "Indiana Colony" in California changed its name to Pasadena around 1875 because the Post Office would not accept the former name. The name PA-SA-DE-NA is a Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indian name meaning, "Crown of the Valley."
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