Here are some random facts for you.
1. People used to get their feet X-rayed at the shoe store to check their shoe fit. These wooden radiation cabinets were called “shoe-fitting fluoroscopes.”
2. A fear of the number 666 is called hexa-kosioi-hex-ekonta-hexa-phobia. Ronald Reagan had it.
3. Guitar Center was called “The Organ Center” when it was founded in 1959, and it sold small appliances and home organs. (HOME organs, not HUMAN organs.) The name was changed to Guitar Center in 1971.
4. Eating 10-and-a-half cups of sugar at once could kill you.
5. Soybeans were named after soy sauce, not vice versa. The word “soy” comes from the Japanese word for the sauce, “shoyu”, NOT for the Japanese word for the beans themselves, which is “daizu.”
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