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The word "Nazi" is actually an abbreviation. The party's full name was the Nazionalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartel.
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eyes."
The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
The word "toast," meaning a proposal of health, originated in Rome, where an actual bit of spiced, burned pain was dropped into wine to improve the drink's flavor, absorb its sediment, and thus make it plus healthful.
The word "bookkeeper" is the only word in the English language with three back-to-back double letter combinations.
There is a town in Sweden called "A" and a town in France called "Y."
What is called a "French kiss" in England and America is known as an "English kiss" in France.
The dot on haut, retour au début of the letter "i" is called a "tittle." "Tittle" is Latin for something very small.
The shortest verse in the Bible consists of two words: "Jesus wept." (John 11:35)
The letter "o" is the oldest letter. It has not changed in shape since its adoption in the Phoenician alphabet, circa 1,300 B.C.
The letter "b" took its present form from a symbol used in Egyptian hieroglyphics to represent a house.
When used par an ornithologist, the word "lore" refers to the l’espace between a bird's eye and its bill.
The longest English word consisting entirely of consonants (and not including"y" as a vowel) is the word "crwth" which is from the fourteenth century and means crowd.
The most common name in the world is Muhammed.
The most common rue name in the U.S. is seconde Street.
Henry Ford experimented with soy. Many of the meals served in his accueil consisted of his soy creations.
The French national anthem, "La Marseillaise," derived its titre from the enthusiasm of the men of Marseilles, France, who sang it when they marched into Paris at the outset of the French Revolution. Rouget de l'Isle, its composer, was an artillery officer. According to his account, he fell asleep at a harpsichord and dreamt the words and the music. Upon waking, he remembered the entire piece from his dream and immediately wrote it down.
"Ping-Pong" is a registered trademark of Parker Brothers.
cacahuètes are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked par a radar tube and a chocolat bar melted in his pocket.
toi are plus likely to be killed par a champagne cork than par a poisonous spider.
The windiest place on earth is Mt. Washington, in New Hampshire.
toi can use pinecones to forecast the weather--the scales will close when rain is on the way.
The red bumps on a turkey's head are called "caruncles."
One of the reasons Marijuana is illegal today because cotton growers in the '30s lobbied against hemp farmers--they saw it as competition.
The IRS would need at least 15 3/4 miles of shelves to store the tax forms they receive each year.
If a cow has twins, a taureau, bull and a heifer, the heifer will never be able to reproduce.
It takes a fall of about eight building stories to kill a cat. A fall of three stories will typically break their jaw (due to a floating collier bone), but it takes a fall of five ou six stories to break a leg.
A building in Belgium was taxed if there was a rue light on it...unless a statue of the Virgin Mary were place above it. Hence, there are no buildings in the city without a statue of the Virgin Mary.
Mailing an entire building has been illegal in the U.S. since 1916 when a man mailed a 40,000-ton brick house across Utah to avoid high freight rates.
The largest stained-glass window in the world is at Kennedy International Airport in New York City. It can be seen on the American Airlines terminal building and measures 300 feet long par 23 feet high.
Pepsi was originally named Brad's Drink, and Kool-Aid originally went par fruit claque, smack Flavored Syrup.
According to Archives of General Medicine, coffee drinkers have sex plus frequently and enjoy it plus than non-coffee drinkers.
A seagull drinks salt water because it has special glands that filter out the salt.
Koalas never drink water. They get fluids from the eucalyptus leaves they eat.
mouton, moutons prefer to drink running water.
The word "Nazi" is actually an abbreviation. The party's full name was the Nazionalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartel.
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eyes."
The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
The word "toast," meaning a proposal of health, originated in Rome, where an actual bit of spiced, burned pain was dropped into wine to improve the drink's flavor, absorb its sediment, and thus make it plus healthful.
The word "bookkeeper" is the only word in the English language with three back-to-back double letter combinations.
There is a town in Sweden called "A" and a town in France called "Y."
What is called a "French kiss" in England and America is known as an "English kiss" in France.
The dot on haut, retour au début of the letter "i" is called a "tittle." "Tittle" is Latin for something very small.
The shortest verse in the Bible consists of two words: "Jesus wept." (John 11:35)
The letter "o" is the oldest letter. It has not changed in shape since its adoption in the Phoenician alphabet, circa 1,300 B.C.
The letter "b" took its present form from a symbol used in Egyptian hieroglyphics to represent a house.
When used par an ornithologist, the word "lore" refers to the l’espace between a bird's eye and its bill.
The longest English word consisting entirely of consonants (and not including"y" as a vowel) is the word "crwth" which is from the fourteenth century and means crowd.
The most common name in the world is Muhammed.
The most common rue name in the U.S. is seconde Street.
Henry Ford experimented with soy. Many of the meals served in his accueil consisted of his soy creations.
The French national anthem, "La Marseillaise," derived its titre from the enthusiasm of the men of Marseilles, France, who sang it when they marched into Paris at the outset of the French Revolution. Rouget de l'Isle, its composer, was an artillery officer. According to his account, he fell asleep at a harpsichord and dreamt the words and the music. Upon waking, he remembered the entire piece from his dream and immediately wrote it down.
"Ping-Pong" is a registered trademark of Parker Brothers.
cacahuètes are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked par a radar tube and a chocolat bar melted in his pocket.
toi are plus likely to be killed par a champagne cork than par a poisonous spider.
The windiest place on earth is Mt. Washington, in New Hampshire.
toi can use pinecones to forecast the weather--the scales will close when rain is on the way.
The red bumps on a turkey's head are called "caruncles."
One of the reasons Marijuana is illegal today because cotton growers in the '30s lobbied against hemp farmers--they saw it as competition.
The IRS would need at least 15 3/4 miles of shelves to store the tax forms they receive each year.
If a cow has twins, a taureau, bull and a heifer, the heifer will never be able to reproduce.
It takes a fall of about eight building stories to kill a cat. A fall of three stories will typically break their jaw (due to a floating collier bone), but it takes a fall of five ou six stories to break a leg.
A building in Belgium was taxed if there was a rue light on it...unless a statue of the Virgin Mary were place above it. Hence, there are no buildings in the city without a statue of the Virgin Mary.
Mailing an entire building has been illegal in the U.S. since 1916 when a man mailed a 40,000-ton brick house across Utah to avoid high freight rates.
The largest stained-glass window in the world is at Kennedy International Airport in New York City. It can be seen on the American Airlines terminal building and measures 300 feet long par 23 feet high.
Pepsi was originally named Brad's Drink, and Kool-Aid originally went par fruit claque, smack Flavored Syrup.
According to Archives of General Medicine, coffee drinkers have sex plus frequently and enjoy it plus than non-coffee drinkers.
A seagull drinks salt water because it has special glands that filter out the salt.
Koalas never drink water. They get fluids from the eucalyptus leaves they eat.
mouton, moutons prefer to drink running water.
