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| Why Is It ? |
| Why is it called lipstick if you can still move your lips ? |
| Why is it considered necessary to nail down the lid of a coffin ? |
| Why is it that raindrops but snowfalls ? |
| Why is it that Doctors call what they do practice ? |
| Why is the third hand on a watch called a second hand ? |
| Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavour and dishwashing liquid made with real lemons ? |
| Why don't we ever see the headline. Psychic wins lottery ? |
| Why is a Boxing Ring square ? |
| Why is abbreviated such a long word ? |
| Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle ? |
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| Did You Know ? |
| Stewardesses is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand |
| The average person falls asleep in seven minutes |
| There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball |
| A cat has 32 muscles in each ear |
| Its impossible to sneeze with your eyes open |
| Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur |
| Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt" |
| Why English is so Hard to Learn |
| You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which, |
| your house can burn up as it burns down / in which you can fill in a form by filling it out, and in which an alarm goes off by going on. |
| When the stars are out they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. |
| When you want to shut down your computer you have to hit start.. |
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| More History The UK circa 1500 |
| Sometimes they would obtain pork and would feel really special when that happened. When company came over they would bring out some bacon and hang it to show off. It was a sign of wealth and that a man could "bring home the bacon". They would cut a little off and share with guests and would sit around "chewing the fat". |
| Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with a high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food. This happened most often with tomatoes so they stopped eating tomatoes for 400 years. |
| Most people didn't have pewter plates but had a trencher which was a piece of wood with the middle scooped out like a bowl. Trenchers were never washed and lots of times worms got into the wood. After eating off wormy trenchers they would get trench mouth. |
| Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family the middle and guests got the top. Or "upper crust". |
| Even More history on next Page |
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