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Bet You Didn’t Know

November 26, 2010

by Peary Perry
Peary Perry
Buy something that weighs ‘a hundredweight’ over here in the States and you’ll get 100 pounds of something…do so in England and you’ll get 12 pounds more.

72 years…that’s how long information in the census must remain confidential…..the government thinks that’s about the average length of a normal life.

Thomas Edison was also the person that first introduced the word …”hello” as the way to answer the phone…..got it from the English word Halloo…a word used in fox hunts…..

If you order a pizza pie in Italy you are being redundant…since pizza means pie in Italian..Thus you’d be ordering a pie pie.

The drink …”Bloody Mary” started out as a drink called the “Red Snapper” where it was invented…in Paris….

Cleopatra used cucumbers to help preserve her skin…still being used today…not by Cleopatra.

H.J. Heinz first product of his famous…’Heinz 57’ was horseradish.


© Peary Perry

Bet You Didn’t Know
- A Treasure Trove of Trivia
November 26, 2010 column
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