Tell us an interesting random fact you stumbled across (Part 1)

‘Victuals’ came up in this thread after a pun by @KarlGauss. It may have always been pronounced as ‘vittles’ from an origin in Middle French as vitail. It’s rarely heard now aside from the Beverly Hillbillies. Many people may never have heard it’s actual pronunciation or assumed incorrectly it was a hillbilly variant that would be properly pronounced phonetically.