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One superstition says that if a girl leaves her house early on Valentine's Day and the first person she meets is a man, then she will be married within three months.
 
Less romantic was the old historical opinion that Valentine's Day is a good day to prepare eels for the purposes of magic. Eating an eel's heart was once believed to enable a person to see into the future.

Yuck.
 
The seven deadly sins (sins serious enough to kill one's soul) are currently anger, envy, pride, sloth, lust, gluttony, and covetousness. They haven't always been so, however. Originally, there were eight deadly sins (as proposed by Avagrius of Pontus). The eight (in order of increasing severity) were gluttony, lust, avarice, sadness, anger, apathy, vainglory, and pride. Gregory the Great later decided that vainglory and pride were too much alike to be counted separately and combined them. He added envy. Later still, the Roman Catholic Church decided sadness wasn't a sin, and added sloth. Somewhere along the way, apathy was dropped as well.

So lust isn't all that bad... excellent!
 
To prevent evil spirits from entering the bodies of their male children, parents dressed them in blue. Blue was chosen because it's the color of the sky and was therefore associated with heavenly spirits. Girls, on the other hand, weren't dressed in blue, apparently because people didn't think that evil spirits would bother with them. Eventually, however, girls did get their own color: pink. Pink was chosen because of an old English legend which said that girls were born inside of pink roses.
 
In 1893, Chicago hired Marie Owens to be it's first policewoman. While the city was progressive in its hiring practices, Chicago's female police officers were not allowed to wear uniforms until 1956.
 
The Ramses condom brand is named after the great pharaoh, Ramses II





He fathered over 160 children. :eek:
 
More on words:

Spoonfed is the longest word with its letters arranged in reverse alphabetical order.

Fickleheaded and fiddledeedee are the longest words consisting only of letters in the first half of the alphabet.
 
No word in the English language rhymes with depth, month, orange, silver or purple.
 
No word in the English language rhymes with depth, month, orange, silver or purple.

:eek: So you mean I can't find anything that rhymes with the following:

During the silver month, I found the purple depth of an orange? :rolleyes:
 
Before 1941 fingerprints were not accepted as evidence in court. Up until that time it was not an established fact that no two fingerprints are alike.

Today, the only time that fingerprints will not be allowed as evidence is if the defense can prove that there are in fact two identical sets of fingerprints.
 
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