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When Henry Heinz came up with the "57 Varieties" slogan, his company was already selling over sixty varieties.
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Chubby Checker is the only individual to have a Number One hit twice with the same record (The Twist).
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*pulling out The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten* An archaic definition of a forgotten word:
An abcedarian is a person or book that teaches the alphabet; the word is formed from the first four (or five) letters of the alphabet. |
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George Elliot (author of the novel "Silas Marner" among others) is the pen name of Mary Ann Evans.
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Coco Chanel named her perfume Chanel #5, but there never was a Chanel #1, #2, #3 or #4.
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*searching a bit more* Hmm, according to en.wikipedia.org, Quote:
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Can abcedarians abdicate?
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The singular of "data" is "datum".
True for english and german. In german the word then doubles as the word for (a calendar) "date". On the other hand, the german plural for "Datum" is "Daten", which doubles as word for "data". |
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your tongue is the only muscle in your body attached at only one end.
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Despite its appearance, each side of an LP has only one groove.
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According to the Word Museum, alectromantia was divination by a cock. One would draw a circle, and write in succession round it the letters of the alphabet; on each side of it lay a grain of corn. Then one would put a cock in the centre of the circle, and watch the grains he ate. The letters would prognosticate the answer. [From] Greek alector, cock, manteia, divination.
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only the female mosquito bites.
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