Reading Time: 4 minutes Most people, whether they will admit it or not, will have some form of phobia. So we have compiled a list of phobias so you can see if any of them fit you or someone you know. But don’t be concerned by this list of phobias, as phobias are a perfectly normal thing to have. …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Have you ever wondered where certain words came from? Take blow job for example. Blow job is the slang term for fellatio, and like many words in the English language it has evolved over time to become what it is today. It would come as no surprise to discover that many words and phrases we use …
Reading Time: 2 minutes One of the greatest authors who has ever lived, Mark Twain, was born and died during Halley’s comet years. This is a pretty freakish coincidence, but it’s not the kind of thing that hasn’t happened before. Furthermore, Mark Twain predicted his own passing while the comet was once again passing Earth. Now that itself is …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Los Angeles short form can be reduced to a mere fraction of its long form. To be absolutely precise, Los Angeles short form is only 3.63 percent of the full name, and it’s all thanks to acronyms. Everywhere you look today you can see an acronym. They’re on television, in magazines and newspapers, online and …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Before we begin discussing some words with no rhyme, we want to test you out with a little quiz. What word rhymes with wolf? If you can think of the answer write it down and you will get the answer at the end of this fact. We al know what rhymes are. In school, and …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Does anything at all, any other words in the English language rhyme with orange or silver? I can still remember my school teacher, all these years later, giving this pop quiz. The words that we were asked to find a rhyme to were orange, silver, purple and month. Despite all of our efforts, no one …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Many of us have more than one name at birth, such as middle names, but usually use only one. As we grow up family and friends may give us nicknames that we will grow accustomed to and answer to. But it’s rare for us to have more than a few names at a time. Sure, …
Reading Time: 2 minutes I thought for our first fact it would be appropriate to have a fact about facts and factoids. So what’s the difference between a fact and a factoid? A fact is clearly something that is true and the information is reliable. A fact is something that courts, scientific experiments and reliable referencing material, such as dictionaries …
Reading Time: 2 minutes The original Snow White story had cannibalism, cruelty and a bizarre twist of torture that would send shock waves through modern society. Sure, the story told by Disney was a great one. It was a little dark and disturbing, but in reality it was a relatively lighthearted take on a sinister classic tale. It was …
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Reading Time: 5 minutes All my life I thought that the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, from Charles Dickens “A Night Before Christmas,” was nothing more than a fictional character. the result of a creative imagination. But to my surprise, he was based on a real person. That’s right, the real Ebenezer Scrooge was based on a real person, a …
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