At the time of the release of 45rpm records there was a worry that people might confuse it with the LP since it contained 45 minutes of sound, so both of them could be called a forty five record.
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Fun fact: Pennsylvania is just two words smashed together: Penn's (the guy who founded it) and Sylvania (meaning forest land)
3 years ago | 9
The most widespread word used in English derived from Finnish is 'sauna.'
3 years ago | 5
Fun fact: the work buckaroo, used to describe a cowboy, gets its origins from anglicizing the Spanish vaquero which also means cowboy.
3 years ago | 4
Fun fact: the two meanings of "holler", to shout vs. a narrow valley, have entirely different origins. The shouty one share an origin with 'hello' and is super old. The narrow valley comes from 'hollow', which comes from 'hole'!
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Gossypiboma, which is the name for an object left behind in a patient after surgery, is by far the most common English word to be a hybrid word from both Latin and Swahili. (Gossypium is the Latin for cotton, and Boma is the Swahili word for "Hiding Place", and the most common thing a surgeon forgets is some form of gauze.)
3 years ago | 4
The mineral that makes up your teeth is Apatite. It's name comes from the Greek word for Deceit, whereas the word Appetite comes from Latin meaning "To Seek"
3 years ago | 4
The whoopee cushion has reportedly been used since ancient times. Roman Emperor Elagabalus was said to enjoy practical jokes at his dinner parties and often placed whoopee cushions under the chairs of his more pompous guests. Elagabalus was Emperor from 218-222 CE meaning the whoopee cushion is potentially flatulating it’s 1800th anniversary of comedic creation.
3 years ago | 4
Fun fact: Westward Ho! in Devon is the only place in the UK with an exclamation mark in its name. However St Louis-du-Ha! Ha! in Quebec is the only place in the world with two.
3 years ago | 3
Fun Fact: MIchigan's state motto translates to "If you seek a beutiful peninsula, look around"
3 years ago | 2
Fun fact 1: The last full moon on Halloween happened in 2020. The next won't happen until 2039. Fun fact 2: The word 'bear' (the animal) came from a word meaning "the brown one" or "wild animal." It was a word used by Proto-Germanic tribes who wanted to avoid saying their language's actual word for bear, because they were afraid that speaking its true name would make it appear.
3 years ago | 3
Fun Fact: Calluna vulgaris (heather) is the sole species in the genus Calluna in the flowering plant family Ericaceae.
3 years ago | 3
A fun fact I learned from OWL magazine way back when is that the blue whale's tongue alone weighs about as much as an elephant. I also recently learned about "misles" (my-zols) which describe phonetically sound mispronunciations of words. It comes from reading "misled" as "my-zold". My favourite one is earnest as "ear nest"
3 years ago | 2
RAS (Reductive Acronym Syndrome) Syndrome is a phenomena for when an acronym has its last word repeated in common speech. Notable examples include ATM Machines (Automated Teller Machines) and PIN Numbers (Personal Identification Number).
3 years ago | 9
They are probably working on covering Sonic's 30th anniversary... it's the biggest gaming news since 2021
3 years ago | 2
Fun fact: LRR is great. Hope you folks are well on the West Coast. Other fun fact: gold nanoparticles tend to be every colour but gold.
3 years ago | 3
The Old English word for "hole" was "thyrel", which persists in modern English not only as "through", but also as the end of "nostril", literally your nose-hole.
3 years ago | 2
Fact: it is a crime to bring you lion to a movie theater in the greater Baltimore (Maryland) area.
3 years ago | 2
LRR Videogames
Hey everyone!
It's time for that quick note about CheckPoint not being filmed again this week. ChillPoint will still be streaming on twitch.tv/loadingreadyrun at 2pm PT on Friday with the vod hitting this channel a couple of days later.
There's been a new Pokemon trailer and there's something about Mario's butt or lack thereof but I'm sure we'll cover it on ChillPoint at least.
Fun fact about holes:
The word "hole" is derived from the Old English "hol" which basically referred to caves. Or so the entry in google search has told me.
Have you got a fun fact? I'm gonna read all the comments on this post so why not leave a fun fact for me to enjoy?
Hope you're all having a great day!
- Heather
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