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The term 'rule of thumb' comes from the old English law that men couldn't beat their wives with anything wider than their thumb.
A monkey's skull wrapped in leather and paper was used as a soccer ball in the very first World's Cup Soccer Championships in Uruguay.
The "pound" key on your keyboard (#) is called an octotroph.
Elvis Presley's hip-wiggling started out as a stage fright. He was so nervous, that his legs would shake.
Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.
Abdul Kassam Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth century, carried his library with him wherever he went. Four hundred camels carried the 117,000 volumes.
Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
In 1386, a pig was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
- I stopped reading at the untrue "rule of thumb" myth in this post.nb
- Abdul didn't have a zip drivemoldero
- The Pulp Fiction one isn't true.elahon
- Elvis Presley learned to dance from a young boy named Forest Gump! This is fact.randommail