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More than 5,000 years ago, the Chinese discovered how to make silk from silkworm cocoons. For about 3,000 years, the Chinese kept this discovery a secret. Because poor people could not afford real silk, they tried to make other cloth look silky. Women would beat on cotton with sticks to soften the fibers. Then they rubbed it against a big stone to make it shiny. The shiny cotton was called "chintz." Because chintz was a cheaper copy of silk, calling something "chintzy" means it is cheap and not of good quality.
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| Annually you will shake hands with 6 men who have recently masturbated and failed to wash their hands. |
| Annually you will shake hands with 11 women who have recently masturbated and failed to wash their hands. |
| An average person's yearly fast food intake will contain 12 pubic hairs. |
| The Can opener wasn't invented until 48 years after the can. |
| When you fart in a pool, it creates a chemical reaction. |
| If you drive a VW into water, with one person it floats; two people it sinks. |
| In 1993 Americans bought 59,000 miles of dental floss. |
| Polar bears are the only mammal with hair on the soles of its feet. |
| Tokyo has had 24 recorded instances of people either killed or receiving serious skull fractures while bowing to each other with the traditional Japanese greeting. |
| A person afflicted with hexadectylism has six fingers or six toes on one or both hands and feet. |
| The only Oscar statuette ever made of wood was presented to Edgar Bergen in 1938 for his "outstanding comic creation," his ventriloquist dummy Charlie McCarthy. |
| From 1942 until the end of World War II, Oscars were made out of plaster to conserve metal. After the war, the winners received "real" replacement statues. |
| Walt Disney named Mickey Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mother he dated for some time. Another story states that: Mickey mouse was not named after Mickey Rooney he was made on a train ride from New York after Walt found out he didn't actually own Oswald the lucky rabbit. The mouse Walt drew was originally named Mortimor But his wife Lilly didn't like that name so she suggested Mickey and the name stuck. |
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