Information and Knowledge Trivia

  • CAPTCHA is an acronym for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart"!
  • Spaghetti is the plural form of the Italian word 'spaghetto'.
  • A person who hides their pain behind a smile is called an 'eccedentesiast'.
  • There are 52 playing cards in a deck to represent the 52 weeks in a year. The four suits represent the 4 seasons.
  • The word 'nice' originally meant foolish or stupid.
  • The pelvis is not 1 large bone but it is 5 bones: the coccyx, the ilium, the chium, the pubis, and the sacrum.
  • The simple past tense version of the word 'dare' is 'durst'.
  • China executes more than 1,000 people every year and they showed it on national TV until 2008. International criticism and Beijing Olympics resulted in China stopping to show it on TV in 2008.
  • A flock of Ravens is called an 'Uunkindness'.
  • Muggle is a person who does not have any skill set.
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