[Community Article] Bizarre Truths

Day 2,216, 12:20 • Published in Ireland Ireland • by Anthony Colby

Hello all. I figured I would try something a little different from history this time. Here are some facts from The Book of Bizarre Truths.

* Three Musketeers candy bars got their name because they used to have three layers: vanilla, chocolate and strawberry. Now, the bars only have chocolate.



* A cat sweats through its paws.



* A cell phone in 1984 would have cost you just under $4,000.



* The screwdriver was somehow invented before the screw.



* Belgium once experimented with using cats to deliver mail.



* The human ear has nine muscles, thought they are mostly nonfunctional.



* Reading about yawning is enough to make many people yawn.



* An average male beard would grow 13 feet long over a lifetime if never shaved.



* Female turkeys don't gobble.



* The "dog days of summer" refers to the ancient Roman belief that Sirius, the Dog Star, was closer to Earth from July 3 to August 11, causing unusually high temperatures.



* Dominoes were developed as a game by French monks and named after the first lines of Psalm 110, which in Latin reads Dixit Dominus meo (" said my Lord").



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Thanks for reading. Hope you learned something.

Anthony Colby