Bet You Didn�t Know, Trivia by Peary Perry, 11-26-2010. (original) (raw)

Buy something that weighs �a hundredweight� over here in the States and you�ll get 100 pounds of something�do so in England and you�ll get 12 pounds more.

72 years�that�s how long information in the census must remain confidential�..the government thinks that�s about the average length of a normal life.

Thomas Edison was also the person that first introduced the word ��hello� as the way to answer the phone�..got it from the English word Halloo�a word used in fox hunts�..

If you order a pizza pie in Italy you are being redundant�since pizza means pie in Italian..Thus you�d be ordering a pie pie.

The drink ��Bloody Mary� started out as a drink called the �Red Snapper� where it was invented�in Paris�.

Cleopatra used cucumbers to help preserve her skin�still being used today�not by Cleopatra.

H.J. Heinz first product of his famous��Heinz 57� was horseradish.

� Peary Perry
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