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Monday, July 21, 2008

Trivia and Amazing Facts 21-07-08

  • The hairless area of roughened skin at the tip of a bear's snout is called the rhinarium.

  • In silent Aboriginal hunting language, a closed hand slowly opening is meant to show that a kangaroo is near.

  • No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

  • An obsolete word for warehouse is "entrepot."

  • In England, the term "blind road" means a cul-de-sac or dead-end street.

 

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