Audrey Hepburn worked with the Dutch Resistance during WWII. She hid messages in her ballet slippers.
On July 10, 1957, at the Ford Motor plant in Tacoma, GA, Paul Anderson set the world record for greatest weight ever raised by a human being - 6,270 pounds.
The RMS Queen Mary was originally supposed to be named Queen Victoria. (Cunard ship names ALWAYS ended in ia, as opposed to White Star ships ending in ic.)
When the shipbuilders informed King George V, Victoria’s grandson, that they were going to name their newest liner after “England’s greatest Queen”, His Majesty said, being totally serious, “My wife will be delighted.”
So what else could they do? Queen Mary herself would christen the ship, I believe.
What’s the over/under on the number of “facts” they’ll print in their column which will later be disproven? And the smart money is on “A duck’s quack doesn’t echo” finishing in the top 3.
Sorry, King Friday, but I found this:
"[ad. L. sincr-us clean, pure, sound, etc. Cf. F. sincère (1549), Sp., Pg., and It. sincero.
The first syllable may be the same as sim-, in simplex: see SIMPLE a. There is no probability in the old explanation from sine cera ‘without wax’.] "
From the Oxford English Dictionary.
Lemmings do not jump off cliffs to control their population.
Neither do giraffes.
A rock hyrax named “Pati” was the inseparable companion of Joy Adamson, who wrote “Born Free.”
There is no Spanish moss in Spain.
It all boils down to which web site you want to belive.
In their first published appearances, the Hulk and Iron Man were grey, and the original Human Torch burned a blue flame. All were changed to their respective green, gold and red by their second appearances.
I’ll try to find a cite, but, offhand, it has to do with the fact that a timpano (timpanum?) head is round. A round vibrating membrane cannot produce a pure note like, say, a guitar string can. It’s physically impossible. However, it sounds good enough to our ears.
No, it boils down to the Oxford English Dictionary being an authoritative work of scholarship.
Beeswax and fish scales are commonly-used lipstick ingredients.
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Actually, it is believed that he stole much of “Hamlet” from a lost play by Thomas Kyd, who probably used Belleforest’s version in “Histories Tragiques”.
You’re right, however, in the fact that they all are based on Danish mythology.
With very, very, very few exceptions (I think maybe sloths and sirenians), all mammals have only seven neck vertebrae.
Not only is Spanish Moss not Spanish–it’s not a moss, but a distant relative of the pineapple.:dubious:
An English horn is neither English nor a horn.
A Congo eel is not an eel and is not even on the same continent as the Congo.
The late National Basketball Association star Wilt Chamberlain never fouled out of any of 1,045 games he played in his career.
Donald Rumsfeld is both the oldest and youngest man to hold the office of US Defence Secretary.
During the war, the SS formed an Indian unit recruited from volunteers captured fighting with the British forces in North Africa, and a Waffen SS unit from Bosnian Muslims, who were allowed to wear a fez as part of their uniform and facilitated with an Iman and mosque.
If you mix Roche MagNA Pure Lysis Buffer and diluted bleach, it turns yellow.
Surprising but TRUE!!!
NurseCarmen!
A real life screamapiller!!!
Ahem… If you order the red velvet cake recipe online, someone will come to your house and beat you with a stick no thicker than Francis Bacon’s thumb.
In Wayland Smithers’ first appearance on “The Simpsons”, he was black.