Today I found out the color orange was named after the fruit, not the other way around. Before then, the English speaking world referred to the orange color as geoluhread, which literally translates to “yellow-red”. The word orange itself was introduced to English through the Spanish word “naranja”, which came from the Sanskrit word nāraṅga, which literally means “orange tree”. […]
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##EMBED## Click Here to Read More Interesting Banana Facts Text Version Bananas do not grow on trees. Rather, they grow from a root structure that produces an above ground stem. The plant is specifically classified as an arborescent (tree-like) perennial herb; in fact, it is the largest herbaceous flowering plant. The banana plant being an herb is that the banana […]
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##EMBED## Click Here to Read More Interesting Elvis Facts Text Version Elvis once wrote a letter to President Nixon asking to become an undercover narcotics cop. Nixon responded by personally giving Elvis a Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs badge. During Elvis’s autopsy, doctors found 10 different drugs in Elvis’s blood stream.
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##EMBED## Click Here to Read More Toilet Paper Facts Text Version Johnny Carson once caused a near month long toilet paper shortage in the U.S. in December of 1973. In his show, he said, “You know what’s disappearing from the supermarket shelves? Toilet paper… There’s an acute shortage of toilet paper in the United States.” Americans promptly went out and […]
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Today I found out why Pop Rocks pop. Much like other hard sugar candies, Pop Rocks are made primarily of sugar, corn syrup, water, and artificial flavoring. It turns out, what causes it to pop when it comes in contact with the moisture and heat in your mouth is not due to any ingredient. Rather, it is due to the […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for More Interest Facts Related to the Jolly Roger Text Version The Jolly Roger wasn’t just used by pirates, the skull and crossbones version is also used by various military forces, even commonly today on submarines in certain navies of the world.
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Today I found out Alfred Nobel, who left most of his fortune to start the Nobel Prizes, was once nicknamed “The Merchant of Death”. The “merchant of death” title was given to him due to Nobel inventing, and making most of his vast fortune off of, dynamite and other types of explosives, such as “ballistite”, which was the precursor to […]
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Note: This is a guest article contributed by frequent TIFO visitor and owner of DumpADay, Jon. Today I found out that the dragonfly can fly up to 60 miles per hour, which makes it the fastest insect on the planet. Interestingly, dragonflies only have their wings for about 3 to 4 weeks of their lifespan. Dragonflies lay their eggs in […]
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##EMBED## Click Here to Read More Bread Related Facts Text Version In medieval times in Western Europe, breads were typically named after the class of people who typically consumed a given type of bread. There were knight’s loafs, squire’s loafs, varlet’s loafs, court’s loafs, pope’s loafs, common loafs, table loafs, etc.
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##EMBED## Click Here for More Interesting Carrot Facts Text Version In ancient times, the root part of the carrot plant that we eat today was not typically used. The carrot plant however was highly valued due to the medicinal value of its seeds and leaves. For instance, Mithridates VI, King of Pontius (around 100BC) had a recipe for counteracting certain […]
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##EMBED## Click Here to Find Out What Moon Dust Smells Like Text Version One Moon “day” is 29 1/2 Earth days. This rotation coincides perfectly with its rotation around the Earth so that we always only see one side of the Moon. Coincidence? I think not! Wake up Sheeple!
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##EMBED## Click Here to Read About the First Website Ever and the Development of the Web Text Version The “//” forward slashes in any web address actually serve no real purpose according to Berners-Lee. He only put them in because “it seemed like a good idea at the time.” He wanted a way to separate the part the web server […]
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##EMBED## Click Here to Read Where the Dollar Sign Comes From Text Version The name ‘dollar’ derived from the word ‘thaler’ which is an abbreviation for the word “Joachimsthaler”, a coin type from the city of Joachimsthal (Jáchymov) in Bohemia, where some of the first such coins were minted in 1516.
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Earthworm Facts Text Version Even though earthworms need to breathe, they have no lungs. They acquire oxygen through their skin. This is why earthworms surface after heavy rains, despite the fact that it is extremely hazardous for them to do so. If they don’t surface, they will suffocate and die […]
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##EMBED## Click Here to Read More Interesting Coffee Related Facts Text Version George Washington invented instant coffee… No, not that George Washington, but rather an English chemist, George Constant Washington.
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##EMBED## Click Here for More Interesting Twinkie Facts Text Version Of the 39 ingredients that make up a Twinkie, only one of them is strictly a preservative or rather its only purpose in being included is because it’s a preservative. Some of the other chemicals have preserving side effects, but their use is primarily as substitutes for the dairy ingredients. […]
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