You can’t put to use all the knowledge you have gathered to work for you in real life. Some facts you know just because they are weird or funny or even outrageous, and these nuggets of knowledge serve no real purpose other than sharing them among friends for fun.
Chinese checkers are not Chinese
This highly popular board game is not a Chinese game even if the board have pictures of dragons on it. This was a German game named Halma or Stern-Halma (Stern is German for star) and was invented in Germany in 1892. The name ‘Chinese Checkers’ was a marketing ploy used in the US in 1928 and it got popularized. The game is in fact neither Chinese nor checkers.
Cigarette lighters are older than matchboxes
Even though it would seem like a low-tech matchbox is an older invention than the much swanky cigarette lighters but that isn’t the case. Cigarette lighter were invented in 1823, three years prior to the invention of Friction Matches. It was probably because for friction match stick they had to find a way to stabilize the phosphorus and the chemistry took some time, while the cigarette lighter is just a combination of flintstone for spark and some liquid fuel in a wick for fire – both super old technologies.
What rhymes with Orange?
This has been the centre of a lot of discussions and memes about if anything actually rhymes with the word orange. Even Rap G.O.A.T Eminem have a very popular video on it rhyming with the word orange with “door hinge” and “four inch”. We loved the Eminem video but technically, the only English word that rhymes with orange is sporange – it is the part of a fern that produces asexual pores. Some also point out to a place called Blorange in the Wales but we all know that proper noun doesn’t count.
What came first – Orange fruit or orange colour?
There was a fruit called orange before there was a colour. The colour of the orange fruit started to be used as standard to describe that particular shade of “red”. Prior to this, orange colour was clubbed with red that’s why orange haired people are called redheads and robin redbreasts and red squirrels are called such despite being orange in colour.
Most Common Name
The most common first name in the world is Mohammad as one of the most popular names for males in the Muslim world around the world. On the other hand, the most popular last name in the world is the Chinese surname Wang. There are almost a hundred million with the same surname. However, Mohammad Wang is not as common as you’d like to think.
