Teach the next person something new!

[Pine]

and their true purpose is sinister.

shut your faceless face

[BlissfulOblivion]

Ooh! and more on the platypus! The Russian word for platypus is "удканос" (pronounced approximately "ood-kah-nos", or for y'all who know the IPA, [ʉd̪kɑnɔs]; also, sorry if I spelled it wrong, I'm not very good with Cyrillic and transcribing Russian)

[Saga]

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
There are more than 10 million bricks in the empire state building.
If an egg floats in water, it is dicey and shouldn't be eaten.

[Littlerock]

I kinda wish I could do that now. That'd be cool.

For a good read on this ability, Discover has a fascinating article on just the subject!

[BlissfulOblivion]

One more thing on the platypus: the word originally comes from Greek, not Latin, so it was originally πλατυπους (platypous). because of this, the "original" pluralization would not have been "platypi," but instead "platypodes."

Okay. I'm done one the subject of the platypus <:

[Saga]

To effectively increase your post count on WF, your posts must have at least 140 characters.
Might not be news to most but I didn't know this until 5 minutes ago :/

[piñardilla]

[Krespo]

The word 'girl' originally referred to children of both sexes.

[Saga]

For hundreds of years little boys wore dresses, up until about the turn of the 20th century.



Franklin Delano Roosevelt, age 2½.

What's with the wig though?
OT: Children in northeast Africa make bracelets and necklaces from beads, but use strips of popped tires instead of string. This is because tires are a common waste in the bush, as there are few paved roads.
I even had one from a pen pal in middle school. I don't know where it is now, it's been way too long.

[Ibuuyk]

The word 'girl' originally referred to children of both sexes.

To continue this, we were all originally girls, but at one point the fetus decides whether it wants to remain a girl or grow the extra bits to become a bouncing baby boy.