Trivia and Amazing Facts 29-05-08

• The difference between a "millennium" and a "chiliad"? None. Both words mean "a period of one thousand years" - the former from Latin, the latter from Greek.

• The telephone area code for a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean is 871.

• To divide something into squares is to "graticulate."

• The letter "B" took its present form from a symbol used in Egyptian hieroglyphics to represent a house. Its original Egyptian form looked very much like its modern one.

• The British call a large umbrella, especially one that is bulky or awkwardly wrapped, a "gamp." It is in allusion to the umbrella of Mrs. Gamp in Charles Dickens' work Martin Chuzzlewit.

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