Judy Garland's snowstorm was fake!

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Granula, the first breakfast cereal, was introduced in 1863. But they had it in a different way than we do now. Find out here.
If you have watched the 1939 Wizard of Oz film, you'll remember that the talented actress Judy Garland is engulfed in a massive snowstorm at some point. Take a listen and find out what it actually was.
When the French took over England in 1066 it was known as the Norman conquest of Britain. That meant there became two ways of saying a whole lot of words, and from a gastronomic standpoint the French won. So the Anglo-Saxon pig became the French porc, which was Anglicized to pork. There's more, have a listen to what Darren Maule shared with us on Get Fact'd this morning
24 Mar 2022 4AM English South Africa Society & Culture · Daily News

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