In Inuit language, “igloo” or iglu means “house.” The term isn’t restricted to snow houses.
Because they have a million words for snow, but only one word for house apparently.
Also, I have a lot of trouble when deciding whether to use italics or quotation marks. You’d think I’d have that down by now.
Blue comedy is a type of comedy that is risque, indecent, and often offensive or controversial. This is named after a comedian who claimed to have kept all of his adult jokes in a blue notebook.
If you write “adult jokes” in your special blue notebook, you’re probably not an adult.
The wireless communication device, Bluetooth, is named after King Harald I of Denmark, the 10th century king whose epithet was “Bluetooth.” He was famous for uniting several Danish tribes. This unity is the goal for Bluetooth. Not uniting Danish tribes, but uniting people across the world with technology.
I have a Bluetooth. But I don’t look cool with it. Bluetooths (Blueteeth?) only work if you’re a bald, black guy.
Rene Descartes had a fetish for cross-eyed women. He claimed the fetish stemmed from his childhood love being cross-eyed.
My childhood love wasn’t cross-eyed, which explains why I have a fetish for girls who aren’t cross-eyed.
To conserve oxygen, blue whales can slow their heart rate down to 4 beats per minute.
Why don’t they just breathe? Are they really that busy?
Taste buds are not only on your tongue, but also on the roof of your mouth and the top of your throat.
Sometimes I press my tongue to the roof of my mouth so my taste buds can taste each other.
“Rag-tag” used to be part of the longer expression “ragtag and bobtail,” meaning “lower class.”
Upon learning that “bobtail” was now involved, I became more confused. So I stopped.
Wisdom teeth appear later in life, when people are “wiser.”
They don’t actually make you smarter. They’re just teeth.
The “fact” that a sleeping person will swallow 8 spiders a year is completely false. The “fact” was invented in 1993 by Lisa Holst as a way to prove how people will believe anything they read on the internet.
People like her really make it hard for me to keep lying to you all.
In the 17th century, there was a game very similar to “jacks” called “dibstones.” However, back then, the players used sheep’s knuckles instead of those little metal trinkets.
Apparently sheep had hands in the 17th century.
With computers, URL stands for “Uniform Resource Locator.”
With truck driving, Earl is your name.
“http” in URLs stands for “Hyper Text Transfer Protocol.”
Basically, four nerdy words put together.
Unlike nocturnal creatures, which are active at night, or diurnal creatures, which are active during the day, crepuscular creatures are active at dawn and at dusk. Ferrets, dogs, cats, rabbits, and old people are all crepuscular.
A couple days ago, I mentioned how Martin Van Buren was the first US President to be born an American citizen.
Though, his patriotism is all a facade. Van Buren is the only* US President not to have spoken English as his first language. He spoke Dutch.
*Depending on who you ask, Obama grew up speaking “Muslim”…
Sternutation is a fancy word for sneezing.
Mastication is a fancy word for chewing.
Masturbation is a sin.