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Did you know?

DID YOU KNOW THESE THINGS HAD NAMES?

1. The space between your eyebrows is called a glabella.

2. The way it smells after the rain is called petrichor.

3. The plastic or metallic coating at the end of your

shoelaces is called an aglet.

4. The rumbling of the stomach is actually called a wamble.

5. The cry of a newborn baby is called a vagitus.

6. The prongs on a fork are called tines.

7. The sheen or light that you see when you close your eyes

and press your hands on them is called phosphenes.

8. The tiny plastic table placed in the middle of a pizza box

is called a box tent.

9. The day after tomorrow is called overmorrow.

10. Your tiny toe or finger is called minimus.

‘I1. The wired cage that holds the cork in a bottle of champagne is called an agraffe.

12. The 'na na na' and ‘la la la‘, which don't really have any meaning in the lyrics of any song, are called vocables.

13. When you combine an exclamation mark with a question mark (like this ?!), it is referred to as an interrobang.

14. The space between your nostrils is called columella nasi

15. The armhole in clothes, where the sleeves are sewn, is called armscye.

16. The condition of finding it difficult to get out of the bed in the morning is called dysania.

17. illegible hand-writing is called griffonage.

18. The dot over an "i" or a "j" is called tittle.

19. That utterly sick feeling you get after eating or drinking too rnuch is called crapulence.

20. The metallic device used to measure your feet at the shoe store is called Bannock device.

Who knew, I sure did not.


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Comments

John Rylance

5 years ago#1

Very interesting. Here's a did you know for you. If three boys from the same family were in a Public School at the same time, they were known by their surnames plus Major, Minor, and Minimus.

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