Some Enlightening Facts

A few of the Enlightening facts which are just too great.

 Many years ago in Scotland, a new game was invented.
It was ruled “Gentlemen Only..Ladies Forbidden”..

 and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.

In the 1400’s a law was set forth that a man was not
 allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than
 his thumb. Hence we have “the rule of thumb”—

 The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom
 Sawyer.

Each king in a deck of playing cards
 represents a great king from history:

 Spades - King David 

 Hearts - Charlemagne

 Clubs -Alexander, the Great

 Diamonds - Julius Caesar Q.

 If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you
 have to go until you would find the letter “A”?
 Ans. One thousand

 In Shakespeare’ s time, mattresses were secured on bed
 frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the
 mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on.
Hence the phrase….”goodnight, sleep  tight.”

 It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years
 ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride’s
 father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead
he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their
calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month . which we know today as the honeymoon.

 In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts…
 So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them “Mind your pints and
 quarts, and settle down.”
 It’s where we get the phrase “mind your P’s and Q’s”

 Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a
 whistle baked into the rim, or handle, of their
 ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. “Wet your whistle” is the phrase inspired by this practice.

 Don’t delete this just because it looks weird. Believe
 it or not, you can read it.

“I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd
 waht I was rdgnieg.The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the  ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a
 porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?