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Friday, July 07, 2006

The (forgotten and furthered by a factor of half of four) Friday Five!

  1. "Flashdance" was released as "Electrodanza" in Mexico in 1983.
  2. The "ZIP" in ZIP code stands for "Zone Improvement Plan".
  3. Osama bin Laden is said to have 54 siblings.
  4. Some ancient Greeks thought amethysts could prevent them from getting drunk.
  5. Bob Dylan isn't Rob Zimmerman's only alter ego. He's also gone by Lucky Wilbury and Blind Boy Grunt.
  6. The term "Blue Monday" came from the weekend before Lent. Catholics'd get their eatin' and drinkin' for the next 40 days crammed in before Lent started. Then, they would return to work on Monday, in a "fog" or "blue fog". Hence the term, "Blue Monday".
  7. To "show your true colours" came from warshippery (my new word for the day). Some boats used to fly flags of different nations, to maybe trick enemies. The rules of civilized warfare were altered to say that ships had to fly their right flag or show their "true colours" before firing any shots.
  8. There's a woman in South Africa who is apparently 132 years old (born in 1874!).
  9. In 2003 dollars, a kidney in Iraq would set you back (ha ha, I slay me) $1,000. In Bosnia-Herzegovina, the price jumps to $68,000.
  10. And finally, to really top it all off, is Cymothoa exigua. It's a fish parasite. It gets in through the gills, and starts feeding on the tongue, sucking blood out. Eventually, the tongue atrophies and disappears. The really weird thing? When the tongue's gone, the parasite stays, and the fish can use it as its own tongue, thereby feeding them both.

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