Silver Tongue

Jan 30

TIL there is controversy over whether Cinderella’s shoes are made of glass or of squirrel leather, the two words being homophones in French (vair/verre)
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Weren’t they originally gold?

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tilthat:

TIL “Smarties” (U.S.) were first made after WWI using repurposed gunpowder pellet machines, which gave them their shape and texture.
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tilthat:

TIL that Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee would go to theaters to watch Looney Tunes cartoons together and were once kicked out for laughing too hard
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tilthat:

TIL that the phrase “o'clock” is short for “of the clock” and comes from a time when people had to specify their time came from a clock instead of a sundial or other device.
via reddit.com

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tilthat:

TIL Hannibal Lecter was making a medical joke with his famous “ate his liver with fava beans and a nice chianti” line: three foods that interact negatively with older kinds of antidepressant meds are liver, beans and wine.
via ift.tt

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laughingacademy:

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:
WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN CAPS
I am totally going to start using “Trouble in caps and italics!” an an exclamation.

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clientsfromhell:

Client: There’s a problem with the Trip Report. I ran it for last year and it added up to 366 days.
Me: 2016 was a leap year.

(Source: clientsfromhell)

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memehumor:

This is just who I am

(Source: memehumor, via scafe-dragon)