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| "Naked" means to be unprotected. "Nude" means unclothed. |
| Even though it is widely attributed to him Shakespeare never actually used the word 'gadzooks'. |
| The collecting of Beer mats is called Tegestology. |
| The term Cop comes from Constable on Patrol. It's from England. |
| Nova Scotia is Latin for 'New Scotland.' |
| The X's that people sometimes put at the end of letters or notes to mean a kiss, actually started back in the 1000's when Lords would sign their names at the end of documents to other important people. It was originally a cross that they would kiss after signing to signify that they were faithful to God and their King. Over the years though, it slanted into the X. |
| The number of cars on the planet is increasing three times faster than the population growth. |
| Less than one per cent of the 500 Chinese cities have clean air, respiratory disease is China's leading cause of death. |
| The tip of a 1/3 inch long hour-hand on a wristwatch travels at 0.00000275 mph. |
| It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk. |
| The average person will spend two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change |
| Less than 3% of Nestlé's sales are for chocolate. |
| If you attempted to count to stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all. |
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