Silly Facts Database - 14
The first Oxford English Dictionary was published in April 1928, 50 years after it was started. It consisted of 400,000 words and phrases in 10 volumes. The latest edition fills 22,000 pages, includes 33,000 Shakespeare quotations, and is bound in 20 volumes. All of which is available on a single CD.
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Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by Bayer.
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The first toilet ever seen on television was on 'Leave It To Beaver'.
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The largest jellyfish ever caught measured 2,3 m (7'6') across the bell with a tentacle of 36 m (120 ft) long.
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About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!
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