Amazing-but-true!

• The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
• Paul Hunn holds the record for the loudest burp, which was 118.1 decibels, which is as loud as a chainsaw
• The word "toy" comes from an old English word that means "tool."
• Throughout the South, peanuts were known as "Monkey Nuts," and "Goober peas," before the civil war
• A chicken with red earlobes will produce brown eggs, and a chicken with white earlobes will produce white eggs
• Instead of a Birthday Cake, many Russian children are given a Birthday Pie
• Chinese Crested dogs can get acne
• Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."
• Macadamia nuts are not sold in their shells because it takes 300 pounds per square inch of pressure to break the shell
• Infants spend more time dreaming than adults do
• The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements
• The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want
• In Belgium, there is a museum just for strawberries
• The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses
• Crayola is a French word that means "Oily chalk."
• Sylvia Plath was a famous poet who killed herself at age thirty-one by sticking her head into a gas oven
• Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors
• The word "checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah-Mat," which means the king is dead
• In Albania, nodding your head means "no" and shaking your head means "yes."
• Ringo Starr appeared in a Japanese advertisement for apple sauce. Ironically his name means "apple sauce" in Japanese
• The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable."

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Love to y'all,
neina-marie, a buzzin' bee