The word "hangnail" comes from Middle English: ang- (painful) + nail. Nothing to do with hanging.
Louis IV of France had a stomach the size of two regular stomachs.
Pepsi originally contained pepsin, thus the name.
Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
If you were born in Los Alamos, New Mexico during the Manhattan project (where they made the atomic bomb), your birthplace was listed as a post office box in Albequerque.
Robert Kennedy was killed in the Ambassador Hotel, the same hotel that housed Marilyn Monroe's first modeling agency.
John Larroquette of "Night Court" and "The John Larroquette Show" was the narrator of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."
The dirt road that General Washington and his soldiers took to fight off General Clinton during the Battle of Monmouth was called the Burlington Path.
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20 Comments
Post a CommentDefinitely interesting
Wow, who knew? I would never have guessed John Larroquette.
Some very interesting tidbits. I didn't know John L. narrated The TCM.
Well done Faye!
Good one, Faye! Thanks!
Interesting as always.
A po box for a birthplace? Tight quarters...
Interesting. I didn't know babies didn't have knee caps either.
No knee caps! New info to me, I'm getting so smart today!!
I didn't know that babies didn't have knee caps