Word “news” did not emerge as a plural of “new”, more as an abbreviation for the world, North, East, West and South, indicating the arrival of news from around the world.
Geese were the first birds domesticated by man.
During the Secession war troops would return to their cartels with a big sign that read “0 Killed”. From that, the phrase O.K. derived from.
The first ancestor of today’s horse lived 50 million years ago. It was 30 cm long and 25 cm high. It had on its front legs four fingers and on his hind legs three fingers.
The term "redskins", Indians acquired, not because of the color of their skin, but because of the red color they put on their skin when they went to war.
Chickens in China annually lay about 160 billion eggs. If we made an omelet out of them, every inhabitant of the Earth would get a piece of omelet with a diameter of one meter.
