Trivia and Amazing Facts 19-06-08

• 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.

• The act of a husband murdering his wife is called "uxoricide."

• The descriptive phrase "eighty pence to the pound" is a British term meaning "not all there" or "stupid."

• There are many definitions in the dictionary for the word "bob," which includes its use as a noun when used for a suckling calf.

• The number of possible ways of playing just the first four moves on each side in a chess game is 318,979,564,000.

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