thedailywhat: Fun Fact of the Day: Apparently, this is because the nursery rhyme was originally a riddle. It’s no longer posed as a riddle since the answer is so well known. And that’s your one new thing learned today. Feel free to shut everything off and go to bed. [urlesque.]

thedailywhat:

Fun Fact of the Day: Apparently, this is because the nursery rhyme was originally a riddle. It’s no longer posed as a riddle since the answer is so well known.

And that’s your one new thing learned today. Feel free to shut everything off and go to bed.

[urlesque.]

(via thedailywhat)

I guess you DO learn something in school…

applesandbriannas:

Keyboards were made with the letters in this order to make typing HARDER for people.

They needed people to type slower on typewriters because if you typed too fast, the typewriter hammers would get messed up.

Now you know.

The sense of taste is called gustation.

The sense of smell:

Women generally have a better sense of smell than men do. 

People have the ability to tell males apart from females on the basis of smell alone.

People can also distinguish happy from sad emotions by sniffing underarm smells. 

Women are able to identify their babies solely on the basis of smell just a few hours after birth. 

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

The first Sony product was a rice cooker, which tended to short out, catch fire and emit electrical shocks.

The distinctive smell that you experience upon opening a box of crayons comes from stearic acid, which is the formal name for processed beef fat.

In chess, the term “checkmate” comes from the Persian phrase “Shah Mat,” which means “the king is dead.”

The Michael Myers mask from the Halloween movies is actually a mold of William Shatner’s face.