facts

[Mϋzikdϋde]

Coca-Cola was named back in 1885 for its two "medicinal" ingredients: extract of coca leaves and kola nuts. But the drink also contained small amounts of cocaine.

 

[brinny]

Crayola is a French word that means "Oily chalk."

 

[brinny]

Frisbee got its name from William Russel Frisbee, who was a pie baker. He used to sell his pies in a thin tin pan, which had Frisbee written on it. When Walter Frederick Morrison thought of the idea of making saucer like disks to play catch, he visited the campus of Yale and noticed people there were using the pie pan to play catch so he therefore renamed his invention to Frisbee.

 

[Mϋzikdϋde]

A dear Abby letter was pulled after the discovery that it came from an episode of the Simpsons.

 

[Mϋzikdϋde]

You can't lick your elbow

 

[Macrina]

Some early American frontier beds were made of a wooden rectangle with ropes going across and down the length of it, providing the base for the mattress. Before retiring for the night, sleeper would take a special tool and wind the ropes tighter and tighter, since they would have loosened in the preceding day. This is the origin of the phrase "sleep tight."

 

[Macrina]

most cheese isn't kosher

 

[Mϋzikdϋde]

most cheese isn't kosher

That's like saying "Most water is wet"

 

[Macrina]

most people I tell are surprised by that fact.

 

[Macrina]

There are bison living in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.

 

[Mϋzikdϋde]

Is that a fact?

 

[Mϋzikdϋde]

oops wrong thread

 

[brinny]

In 1903, there were originally only eight Crayola crayons in a box and they sold for five cents.

 

[SuperSmart]

If u are sniggling you are catching eels