 Some strange but true facts for your amusement...
Dionysis Exeguus - the 6th century monk whose task it was to pivot the calendar around the birth of Jesus Christ - miscalculated the founding of Rome by about 6 years (and left out the year 0), thus the Third Millennium actually started on 31 December 1995.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
In the early days of film making, people who worked on the sets were
called movies. The films were called motion pictures.
Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing.
The words "electronic mail" might sound new but was introduced 30 years ago. Queen Elizabeth of Britain sent her first email in 1976.
On the night "The Exorcist premiered in Rome, Italy a bolt of lightning struck the steeple on the church next door and knocked the crucifix into the street.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:
Spades - King David
Hearts - Charlemagne
Clubs -Alexander the Great
Diamonds - Julius Caesar
In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden.... and thus the word GOLF entered the vocabulary.
In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's"
It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month or what we know today as the honeymoon.
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