- In 1983, a Japanese artist, Tadahiko Ogawa, made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of ordinary toast.
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(Added: Thu Jan 12 2006) - Lachanophobia is the fear of vegetables.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The dot that appears over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The origins of the soldier term "G.I." is an abbreviation for "Government Issue," which was stamped on all government kits supplied to recruits in the US Army during World War II.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The term "devil's advocate" comes from the Roman Catholic Church. When deciding if someone should be sainted, a devil's advocate is always appointed to give an alternative view.
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(Added: Thu Sep 21 2006) - The term "mayday" used for signaling for help (after SOS) comes from the French "M'aidez" which is pronounced "MAYDAY" and means, "Help Me."
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The word Karate means, "empty hand."
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - There are about 6,800 languages in the world.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Santa Claus has a brother named Bells Nichols according to French Tradition. He visits homes on New Year's Eve after everyone is asleep, and if a plate is set out for him, he fills it with cookies and cakes.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The mythical Scottish town of Brigadoon appears for one day every one hundred years.
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(Added: Wed Sep 20 2006) - The little circles of paper that are cut out after a paper has been punched by a hole puncher are called "chad."
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - There are 158 verses in the Greek National Anthem.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The name of the award given to honor the best sites on the Internet is called "The Webby Award."
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The word "Nazi" is actually an abbreviation for Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, which refers to the National Socialist German Workers Party.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Playwright Shakespeare was only 18 years old when he married Ann Hathaway, who was 26 years old at the time.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The word "umbrella" is derived from the Latin root word "umbra", which means shade or shadow.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - In 1961, Italian artist Piero Manzoni packed his feces in cans, signed and mounted them, and then sold them as art.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The Faberge, "Winter Egg" was sold in 1994 for $5.6 million. This is the most expensive decorative egg that has ever been sold.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - TIME magazine's Man of the Year for 1982 was the computer.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The most popular recipient of Valentine cards are school teachers.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Leonardo Da Vinci never signed or dated his most famous painting, the Mona Lisa.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - For 47 days in 1961, the painting "Matisse's Le Bateau (The Boat)" was hanging upside down in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Apparently none of the over 116,000 visitors seem to have noticed.
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