Aoccdrnig to rscheearch
at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in
waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht
frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl
mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do
not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe. ceehiro
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The Western practice of wearing a
wedding ring on the third finger (not including the thumb) began in
Greece in the third century B.C. The Greeks believed that there was a
vein, named the "vein of love," that ran from what we now call the ring
finger directly to the heart. As a result, they placed the ring that
symbolized love on that finger.
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If a statue in the park of a person
on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if
the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of
wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground,
the person died of natural causes.
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The Main Library at Indiana
University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built,
engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that
would occupy the building.
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Clans of long ago that wanted to get
rid of their unwanted people without killing them would burn their
houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
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The phrase "rule of thumb" is
derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your
wife with anything wider than your thumb.
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The term "the whole 9 yards" came
from W.W.II fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their
airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured
exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots
fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
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The Pentagon, in Arlington,
Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built
in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring
separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
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The highest point in Pennsylvania is
lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
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In the 1940s, the FCC assigned
television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs,
for instance) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That
is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.
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The microwave was invented after a
researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his
pocket.
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Los Angeles's full name is "El
Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"
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Columbia University is the second largest
landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
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The dial tone of a normal telephone is in the key
of "F".
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When the University of Nebraska
Cornhuskers play football at home to a sellout crowd, the full stadium
becomes the state's third largest city.
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Coca-Cola was originally green.
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It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not
downstairs.
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If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four
pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in
coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
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The nursery rhyme Ring Around the Rosey is a
rhyme about the plague. Infected people with the plague would get red
circular sores ("Ring around the rosey..."), these sores would smell
very badly so common folks would put flowers on their bodies somewhere
(inconspicuously), so that it would cover the smell of the sores ("...a
pocket full of poseys..."), People who died from the plague would be
burned so as to reduce the possible spread of the disease ("...ashes,
ashes, we all fall down!")
