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Saturday, November 14, 2009
TRUE or FALSE - YOU DECIDE!
Mongolia's official currency is the tugrik.
U-BETCHA! The tugrik—or tugrug was historically subdivided into 100 möngö (мөнгө). Currently the lowest denomination in regular use is the 10-tögrög note and the highest is the 20,000-tögrög note.
The first use of duck or duct tape was to seal or fix leaky roofs.
Nope! Sealing U.S. Army ammunition boxes to keep moisture out during World War II. Developed for that use in the early 1940s by Johnson & Johnson’s Permacel division, the tape was colored Army green and came to be known as duck tape because it repelled water. After the war, when it was being widely used on heating and airconditioning ducts, the color was changed to silver and it became popularly referred to as duct tape.
Sherlock Holmes considerd “the second most dangerous man in London to be Sebastian Moran.
Yup. Colonel Sebastian Moran, chief of staff to Professor Moriarty, the most dangerous man in London in Holmes’s estimation.
Russian Night Witches were old women who practiced folk medicine.
Not likely! Female combat pilots who flew night missions for Russia during World War II. They were named night witches—Nachthexen—by the Germans they bombed and fought.
Gold Beating is the term used when a goldsmith bends the gold into different shapes.
Un-uh. Gold Beating is the process of turning gold into extremely thin gold leaves.
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