Listerine mouthwash popularized the phrase “Always a bridesmaid, never a bride”.
U-BETCHA! It was in ads for Listerine mouthwash, in a highly successful, long-running ad campaign in the 1920s and 1930s
Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones were born 25 years apart—share the same birthday.
Yup. The Hollywood husband and wife were born on September 25th—he in 1944 and she in 1969.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was knighted for writing "Sherlock Holmes".
Un-uh. Doyle, the man who gave us
Sherlock Holmes, was knighted for writing a pamphlet in 1902 in defense of British actions in the Boer War, including the establishment of “concentration camps,” which he contended were really refugee camps. The pamphlet was titled “The War in South Africa: Its Causes and Conduct.”
There is a fruit that is used for washing and not eating.
The loofah, which is a tropical gourd valued for its fibrous, spongelike interior.
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