{"id":42430,"date":"2015-07-31T00:32:48","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T07:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=42430"},"modified":"2015-07-31T00:32:48","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T07:32:48","slug":"the-origin-of-looney-tunes-acme-the-slave-who-helped-make-the-freedom-statue-why-the-monopoly-pieces-are-as-they-are-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/the-origin-of-looney-tunes-acme-the-slave-who-helped-make-the-freedom-statue-why-the-monopoly-pieces-are-as-they-are-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"The Origin of Looney Tunes&#8217; &#8220;ACME&#8221;, The Slave Who Helped Make the Freedom Statue, Why the Monopoly Pieces are as They are and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p>In this week\u2019s \u201cbest of\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/TodayIFoundOut\" target=\"_blank\">our YouTube channel<\/a>, we discuss the origin of the &#8220;ACME&#8221; brand name in Looney Tunes, the slave who helped make the famous Freedom Statue in Washington DC, why the Monopoly pieces are as they are, that time a tulip cost more than a house, and the truth about whales and their blowholes (aka, why Dory and Marlin really would have died.) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to subscribe to our YouTube Channel for many more videos like this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Origin of the ACME Brand<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1EevEHh58B0?rel=0\" width=\"850\" height=\"478\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Slave Who Helped Make the Freedom Statue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gkt8zAec9Hg?rel=0\" width=\"850\" height=\"478\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why the Monopoly Pieces are as They are<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fb5D31F5Ru0?rel=0\" width=\"850\" height=\"478\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>That Time a Tulip Cost More Than a House<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/59tGP82j6Wk?rel=0\" width=\"850\" height=\"478\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Truth About Whales and Their Blowholes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pg4Ovi8GoIk?rel=0\" width=\"850\" height=\"478\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s \u201cbest of\u201d our YouTube channel, we discuss the origin of the &#8220;ACME&#8221; brand name in Looney Tunes, the slave who helped make the famous Freedom Statue in Washington DC, why the Monopoly pieces are as they are, that time a tulip cost more than a house, and the truth about whales and their blowholes (aka, why Dory [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":42432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2957],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-educational_videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42433,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42430\/revisions\/42433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}