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Give us all your best random fact
The word “chunder” which some people use for being sick comes from the board that sailed from England to Australia. They had multi decks and when people stuck their head over the side to be sea sick they would shout “watch under” to make sure they weren’t sick on someone’s head below. The word got shortened to chunder and is now used for someone who has vomited |
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Quarantine comes from the Italian for 40..quaranta... Which was the number of days boats had to isolate and lay at anchor outside Venice before they were allowed to make land in the plague in the 14th century.
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The furthest star that can be seen with the made eye, is 2,000,000 light years away! That means, when you see it your looking at something that happened 2,000,000, ago |
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Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey...
In the old days cannon balls were stacked on a frame made of brass called a monkey..when very cold the brass monkey frame shrunk and the cannon balls fell off...that's true.. |
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"Quarantine comes from the Italian for 40..quaranta... Which was the number of days boats had to isolate and lay at anchor outside Venice before they were allowed to make land in the plague in the 14th century.
Plus ca change"
I thought that came from the French quarante  |
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