Also A Fact: You Are My Favourite Person Right Now.

[rionaleonhart]

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Dear whoever just anonymously bought me paid time: who are you? You are the best, that's who you are. Thank you so much! ♥!

I'd like to do something in return, but obviously as I don't know who you are I don't know what you'd like. What I've decided to do, therefore, is make a new Entry of Interesting Things ( here is the one from last year,

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[derryderrydown]

RPF or RPS? Inquiring minds!

[derryderrydown]

That is significantly less awesome, Brontes!

[wanttobeatree]

Initially audiences found the Mormon Revenge part of A Study in Scarlet a lot more interesting than the Sherlock Holmes part. There was even a theatrical adaptation that wrote Holmes out completely. It took a while for the appeal of the genius detective who detects to catch on.

I posted this on my LJ the other day but it BEARS REPEATING: One time Oscar Wilde tried to get knee-length britches back into fashion and everyone was all 'Stop trying to make knee-length britches happen, Oscar! It's not going to happen!' and the gossip rags mocked him about for about it FOREVER AND EVER.

(Help help I have fallen into the late nineteenth century and I can't get up.)

[emmarrrrr]

...Really? This fact boggles me because I actually got told not to bother with the second half of A Study In Scarlet precisely because of the Mormon Revenge part.

[wanttobeatree]

Really. People were all 'faraway lands! death, love, betrayal! mormons!' Detective fiction barely even existed at that point, whereas everyone loves a good revenging.

[rionaleonhart]

Initially audiences found the Mormon Revenge part of A Study in Scarlet a lot more interesting than the Sherlock Holmes part. There was even a theatrical adaptation that wrote Holmes out completely.

I genuinely cannot imagine this. YOU ARE WEIRD, CONTEMPORARY SHERLOCK HOLMES READERS.

[lotus0kid]

Heh, and I just so happen to be reading a book made of interesting facts. Such as:

-The phrases "pay dirt," "pan out," "stake a claim," and "strike it rich" all come from the California Gold Rush.
-The word "jeans" is a corruption of Genoa, the Italian city that first wove the cloth. Also, "denim" comes from "serge de Nîmes," the French city.
-The reason Americans say stuff like "she went to the hospital" instead of "she went to hospital" is because of the massive influx of Irish immigrants, who had "the habit of attaching definite articles to conditions that previously lacked them."
-The longest place name in America is Nunathloogagamuitbingoi Dunes, Alaska.

[apiphile]

The poetry form "pantoum" consists entirely of repeating lines; every line repeats twice.

A bell has vibrational nodes vertically and horizontally on the body, acting as thin circular "slices" which resonate at different frequencies depending on their width. This and the resonant chamber of the bell cause a much longer-lasting and "pure-sounding" tone than most idiophones (solid struck instruments).

[th_esaurus]

The 'Ye' in 'Ye Olde Sweet Shoppe' etc originates from this letter: