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The phrase 'rule of thumb' is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
The term 'the whole 9 yards' came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got 'the whole 9 yards.'
There are only four words in the English language which end in '-dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
The word 'testify' is based on the Ancient Roman practice of making men swear on their testicles when making a statement in court.
In England in the 1880s, 'pants' was considered a dirty word.
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According to many language experts, the most difficult kind of phrase to create is a palindrome, a sentence or group of sentences that reads the same backward and forward.
The dot that appears over the letter i is called a 'tittle.'
If you were to spell out numbers, you would you have to go until 1,000 until you would find the letter A.
There is a bar in London that sells vaporized vodka, which is inhaled instead of sipped.
In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks, and spoons.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
Coca-cola was originally green.
The only food that does not spoil: honey.
The Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner.
Built in 1888, the James Lick telescope at Lick Observatory has a lens diameter of 36 inches and a focal length of 17.6 meters, making it the third largest optical refracting telescope around.
Between 1976 and 2001, housing costs in San Jose rose almost 1000 percent with the explosion of Silicon Valley.
Skulls are like fingerprints. Frontal sinus print is found to be unique to a particular individual.
San Jose is often called the most bike-friendly city in California, with bicycle clubs dating back to 1884.
"El Gordo" is the biggest galaxy cluster ever seen in the early universe.
Cisco Systems has over 13,000 jobs in San Jose, making the largest private employer in the city.
64% of Americans allegedly prefer their cats' company to their significant others, a survey found.
A former Macy's salesperson became Queen of Romania in 1948.
There are around 600 gazetted places named after the Emu in Australia, including mountains, lakes, creeks and towns.
San Jose Fire Department often responds to more than 80,000 incidents every year.
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The highest temperature ever recorded in San Jose was 109 degrees Fahrenheit in 2000, while the lowest was 19 degrees, 10 years earlier.
Famous for his party lifestyle, Nikki Sixx of Motley Crüe was born in San Jose.
San Jose has some of the best weather around, with the sun popping out for roughly 300 days every year.
There’s no one on the silver podium space of the iconic Olympics Black Power Statue on SJSU’s campus because the second place medalist, Australian Peter Norman, didn’t want to be depicted.