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How To Get a Word into the Oxford English Dictionary

By: Mental Floss 7 days 11 hours 52 minutes ago
Channel: Humor & Satire Living

The short process is: meet someone who works at the OED evaluating new words for inclusion. The slightly longer process involves plying him or her with drink. The most complete answer is contained in Lyza Danger Gardner’s blog entry How I Got a Word into the Oxford English Dictionary. (And yes, [...]

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The Quick 10: 10 Random Facts About Disneyland

By: Mental Floss 7 days 15 hours 44 minutes ago
Channel: Humor & Satire Living

Today is the anniversary of the day Disneyland opened on July 17, 1955. We’re big Disney freaks in my family, so I thought it would only be appropriate to commemorate the day with a Quick 10. 10 Random Facts about Disneyland 1. Roy O. Disney arranged to buy the very first ticket to Disneyland, [...]

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5 Presidential Secrets Left off the White House Tour

By: Mental Floss 7 days 16 hours 35 minutes ago
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1. Washington Wasnt the First American President Your teachers all said G.W. was the first American president, but George I Cannot Tell a Lie Washington would have told you differently. During the American Revolution in 1781, the Continental Congress elected Maryland statesman John Hanson to the post of President of the United States in Congress Assembled. [...]

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Lunchtime Quiz: Knight, right?

By: Mental Floss 7 days 19 hours 23 minutes ago
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The Dark Knight comes out at midnight tonight, so in honor of the movie, here’s a quiz about knights. It’s become a tradition for entertainers, sports stars and other celebrities to be knighted by the Queen. We’ve compiled 12 names; can you identify the knights and dames? Note: Even if they have been honored by the [...]

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Why Dont Human Cannonballs Die?

By: Mental Floss 7 days 19 hours 41 minutes ago
Channel: Humor & Satire Living

Questions that have bedeviled legions of circus-goers and carnival connoisseurs: why doesn’t the gunpowder kill the cannonballer before they exit the cannon? Do my eyes deceive me? And how can I break into the fast-growing field of human cannonballing? Patience, my friends. All in good time. They don’t actually use gunpowder The “cannons” [...]

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