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Tyrannosaurus Rex

The Tyrannosaurus Rex (T Rex) has a smell centre in its brain the size of an orange. Ours in comparison is as big as a pea
The T Rex had only 2 fingers on each hand that could never reach its mouth
The Tyrannosaurus Rex has jaws (4 feet) longer than its arm (3 feet)
If the T-Rex tripped while running, the fall could possibly kill it
The closest living relative to the T-Rex is the chicken!

Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little but considered “Little” his slave name and changed it to “X” representing his lost tribal name
When Malcolm X was younger, he bleached his hair red brown, and was known as Big Red and Detroit Red
Malcolm X dropped out of high school

Scandinavian berserkers went into “fury” or “berserkergang” not only in battle, but also during laborious work. Source: Fabing, p. 234

To defend Port Moresby along the Kokoda Track, Australia sent militia termed the Koalas (not to be shot at, not to be exported and were protected by the Government) instead of special forces (AIF)

Without Dr. Howard Florey, Dr. Alexander Flemming might never have been credited with the discovery of penicillin, as it was Florey who supplied Flemming with a working dose of penicillin
Of the first 3 patients who received penicillin, only 1 survived. That is a 60% mortality rate

In Shakespeare, Rosalind, the heroine of “As You Like It”, has more lines than any of Shakespeare’s female characters. Cleopatra comes in second with 670 lines and third place belongs to Imogen (”Cymbeline”), with 591 lines
It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear

The salute of uniform bodies (eg. army, police) originated from knights who lifted their visors to show their face to a royalty

During his entire lifetime, Herman Melville’s timeless classic of the sea, ‘Moby Dick’, only sold 50 copies.

Joan of Arc was actually burned alive as a witch in 1431, and only considered a saint in the 20th century. (Them folks must be pissed to hear that)

Bows and arrows used to be meade from the yew tree in the 1500s, so when an arrow was shot it was called “plucking the yew.” At the Battle of Agincort (once again, not sure), the French party was going to capture the English and cut of their middle fingers so they couldn’t pluck the yew. However, the English people heard of their plan and weren’t captured. So, they taunted the french people by waving their middle fingers and saysing “Look, we can still pluck yew!” So “pluck yew” was a phrase used to taunt french people, until it evolved to “fuck you” and the hand gesture was associated with… well, we all know what it’s supposed to look like. Anyway, that’s how my history teacher heard it. Thanx Superchick
‘fuck’ comes from the sentence, “Fornication Under Consent of the King” which was what they called a whore house back then. This came from a facts book i read. Honest
‘fuck’ comes from ‘fichen’, German for “to strike.”
Webster’s says that it most likely comes from fokken, “to breed (cattle).” Thanx Jon C
The word “FUCK” comes from the olden days. When a person was caught being unfaithful, they were made to wear a sign saying “FUCK”, it stood for “For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge”. Thanx Connor B.
The word fuck came from WW 1 ,the german airplane manafactuar foccas was the cause, the british use the word as a swear. Thanx Mick Q