TIL "La Catrina" – a skeleton that is the icon of the Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos) – was originally known as Calavera Garbancera. José Guadalupe Posada, the engraver, illustrated her in ostentatious attire to satirize the way the "garbanceras" attempted to pass as upper-class.

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