Yes. The “Bugs Bunny” character is based on a real animal.
The Tasmanian devil is a marsupial about 20-30 inches long that lives in Tasmania, an island near Australia. The mammal has black and dark brown hair, a bushy tail, a…
About Hans Christian Anderson:
Hans Christian Anderson wrote an alternate version to an old Spanish story.
It’s the Emperor’s New Clothes.
In the ORIGINAL Spanish version, the only people who could see the cloth were “sons of their fathers”…meaning anyone who couldn’t see…
Hemophilia does not only affect males. The carriers of this disease can also exhibit many of the symptoms of hemophilia. The Symptomatic Carriers can also take medications to help them with their symptoms. Although most hemophiliacs have some clotting ability,…
Most of the time, they don’t.
Squirrels really do work hard to hide and bury nuts and each may bury thousands of them per year.
Unfortunately, their memories are about as good as this writer’s memory and they forget what they buried…
No.
Don’t let the kids scare you.
A person can hold his breath to the point of unconsciousness, but once he’s passed out, the lungs will start up again automatically.
Q: Why do most people not understand the saying… “The exception proves the rule” ?
A: Because when the saying first came into being around the 16th century, the word ‘prove’ meant “test”. As indeed in certain restricted usages it still…
Both.
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm gathered original oral tales primarily from the growing German middle class in the early nineteenth century.
The tales they published, however, were substantially altered, with significant changes in characters and meaning.
The tales, therefore, were not simply oral…
She probably can’t.
The reason this fairy tale princess has glass slippers is due to a translation error.
Hundreds of “Cinderella” stories exist, in many different cultures, dating back as far as the ninth century. However, not one of the tales featured…
Your skin.
Although most people do not think of the skin as an organ, it actually is.
- Thanks C.D.!
It comes from “tunnage” which was a TAX imposed by Henry the Fifth of England on all wine importers.
For every ‘tun’ (1 tun = 4 hogsheads = 252 old wine gallons) of wine an importer brought into England, they had…