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The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York City in 1885 aboard the French ship 'Isere.' There are 336 dimples in a regulation golf ball. The word 'terrier' comes from the Latin root 'terra', earth. Rats can't throw-up. The 'y' in signs reading 'ye olde...' is properly pronounced with a 'th' sound, not 'y'. The 'th' sound does not exist in Latin, so when the Romans occupied (present day) England they used the rune 'thorn' to represent 'th' sounds. With the advent of the printing press the character from the Roman alphabet which closest resembled thorn was the lower case 'y'. Hilary Clinton once said 'We are the President' The largest bird egg in the world today is that of the ostrich. Ostrich eggs are from 6 to 8 inches long. Because of their size and the thickness of their shells, they take 40 minutes to hard-boil. In Elizabethan England the spoon was such a novelty, such a prized rarity, that people carried their own folding spoons to banquets. Birds don't fly south for the winter to keep warm - they go there for food. In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, 'They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run' On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run. One of the holiest Christian holidays is named after a pagan goddess. The name 'Easter' derives from the Anglo-Saxon goddess Eostre, who governed the vernal equinox. In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase 'Mind Your P's And Q's'. The ceremony to marry an Amish couple traditionally takes about 3 hours 30 minutes. The symbol on the 'pound' key (#) is called an octothorpe. The Incas and the Aztecs were able to function without the wheel. A sport practiced in ancient China consisted of placing two angry male quails in a large glass bowl and watching as the creatures clawed each other to death. The world's most popular car color is red. One of the most efficient ways of cleaning your teeth is to chew on a stick. Some apes in the wild have been observed whistling. People used to wear shoes on either foot. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's 'Its A Wonderful Life.' The first words spoken by Alexander Bell over the telephone were: "Watson, please come here, I want you". The largest cell in the human body is the female ovum, or egg cell. It is about 1/180 inch in diameter. The smallest cell in the human body is the male sperm. It takes about 175,000 sperm cells to weigh as much as a single egg cell. Adolph Hitler was Time's 'Man of the Year' for 1938. French fries are the most-ordered item in American restaurants. |
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