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i really think they should let Harry Styles should do a Criterion Closet to promote his first starring appearance in the MCU

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my “Challengers” Halloween costume is just me oozing an ungodly aura of horniness…no tennis outfit…and not slutty…just copious volumes of horny energy. oh and synthwave backing music.

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do you think The Ghost of Christmas Future would show Scrooge 9/11?

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just learned that “bra” is short for “brat”

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(10) the term “Pinoy,” a slang endonym for Filipinos, was first recorded in the 1920’s by immigrant laborers mostly of Ilokano descent in America known as “manongs.” it was later adopted back in the Philippines during the 60’s during the psychedelic rock movement.

The front spread of Wallace Stegner's essay in One Nation.
cassette case for “The Best of Pinoy Rock Vol. 2”
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(9) the first Prime Minister of Spain with “Indian blood” is Marcelo Azzcaraga, the son of a Penisulares that owned a book shop in Escolta, Manila, and a Mestiza mother from Albay. Marcelo himself is a graduate of UST, the oldest university in Asia.

Kaulak’s photographic portrait of Marcelo de Azcárraga Ugarte y Palmero-Versosa de Lizárraga
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(8) the famous Filipino desert halo-halo was introduced around the 1920s by Japanese confectioners in Binondo, the oldest Chinatown in the world. it was was based off of the popular Japanese shaved ice treat, “Kakigori.”

Halo halos
Kakigori
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(7) Ferdinand Magellan actually battled against inhabitants of what would be known as The Philippine Islands. 10 years before landing on Mactan, he encountered “Luzonians,” which were mostly warriors from the Kapampangan Empire, during the conquest of Malacca with Portugal.

Old Portuguese diagram of fortress on the port of Portuguese Malaka
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(6) the coconut species in the western coast of both Americas are descendants of the coconuts from the Philippines. from Mexico up to the US in California came via the Manila-Galleon trade, while the ones found in S. America came from ancient Austronesian-speaking travelers.

Excerpt from Henry J. Burman’s academic research on “Early Coconut Culture in West Mexico” from The Hispanic American Historical Review (JSTOR)
map depicting the proposed theory of Austronesian-speaking immigration from Indo-Malay archipelago to Polynesia to South America
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(5) “champurrado” is a traditional drink that inspired the popular Filipino chocolate rice porridge, “champorado.” in a fun twisty coincidence, the terms are derived from the Spanish “champurrar,” which means to mix, which they got from the Portuguese who got it from the Malay “campur”

Mexican champurrado
Filipino champorado
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