Broken bits of matzo are called Farfel. I would have assumed that the name was a variation of farfalle because the bits of matzo were used in the same recipes as the pasta but wiki tells me this:
It’s not clear to me if the name farfel was originally related to farfelle, or if the association with farfaln was the origin of farfel.
In late March 2009, investigators concluded that there was no “phantom criminal”, and the DNA had already been present on the cotton swabs used for collecting DNA samples; it belonged to a woman who worked at the factory where they were made.
There’s a species of arctic fish with clear blood. Gas solubility increases at low temperatures, so it’s able to meet all its oxygen-transport needs without hemoglobin.
Brilliant fact. That sent me straight to google. For anyone else who has the same reaction…
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Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, and Panama all had a McDonalds before New York City did.
The company held out against paying zoning bribes.
Yes, that was a big embarrasment for German police. And it had consequences for many cases, as looking for the wrong suspect is wont to be.
I, that is, wiktionary can help with that:
Attested ca. 1500, standard since the 18th century. From an East Central German (that is: Saxonian - added by me) dialect word, equivalent to Schmetten (“cream”) + -ling, due to an old belief that butterflies eat milk products or, in a more ornamented form, that witches transform themselves into butterflies in order to steal such products.
Compare English butterfly.
So it is not “literally smashing”, as you suspect, though cream gets smashed (whipped) to make whipped cream.
or, butter?
The etymology of the word gorilla: The Carthaginian explorer Hanno the Navigator, during his exploration of the western coast of Africa in the fifth century BC, came across an island inhabited by hairy savage people. The expedition’s African interpreters called these people Gorillai. From the Wikipedia entry:
Attempts to capture the men failed. Three of the women were taken, but were so ferocious that they were killed, their skins brought home to Carthage. The skins were kept in the Temple of Juno (Tanit or Astarte) on Hanno’s return and, according to Pliny the Elder, survived until the Roman destruction of Carthage in 146 BC, some 350 years after Hanno’s expedition.
As I quoted:
Compare English butterfly.
To make a sword out of the blood of your enemies, you will have to kill approximately 360 people to get enough iron from their blood to make a long sword.
Or so I’ve been told.
At four grams of iron in a human body, not just the blood, that works out to 1.44 Kilograms of sword. Apparently, longswords average from 1 to 1.5 kg. So yeah, according to completely unverified fast googling you are correct.
I don’t actually have three enemies, much less 360 (I don’t think), and I don’t want to actually kill anyone, but… now I really want a sword made from the blood of my enemies. Even a sword made from the blood of annoying people who died of natural causes would be satisfactory.
If you make lots of Irish enemies you won’t need as many. Irish people are at greater risk for Hemochromatosis, a genetic predisposition for absorbing too much iron from our diet. Irish Americans are an especially good choice, because combining this with the requirement to enrich flour/bread with iron in the US, a high red-meat diet, and appalling levels of ignorance among primary care physicians, there are a great many of us with detrimental levels of iron stored in our vital organs.
With Irish enemies you don’t cut the number of dead-you upgrade to a broadsword.
I actually know someone with hemochromatosis (Welsh, not Irish, but same gene pool for this issue, as I understand it). I don’t think that gets me any closer to my sword, though.
AMHIK. 
Come to think of it, the other great recommendation for hemochromatosis sufferers is that we have to donate blood on a regular basis in order to keep our iron levels steady. So how would you feel about using the blood of kindly acquaintances? 
My wife - German/whatever has iron rich blood. Doc said it probably came from our well water, which is very high in iron content. :shrug:
She will only drink bottled water, diet coke (blech) or beer. With a margarita once in a while. Fresh lime juice, Petron Silver tequila, a touch of agave syrup and Grand Marnier. Salted rim of course and crushed ice. I don’t have the patience to make them. But you only need one or two…
Huh, I have hemochromatosis, and I’m part Irish. And it’s not known for sure, but my family suspects that the gene (on that side) came from my mostly-Irish grandfather.