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At King of the Ring 1998, Mick Foley was thrown head first off a sixteen foot high cell onto a table by The Undertaker and it has since become one of the most famous moments in professional wrestling. 
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| The 'You are here' arrow on a map is called the IDEO locator. |
| In the 40's, the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear that Americans would pronounce it 'Bitch.'. |
| Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower', because in the time when al original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case stored smaller, 'lower case' letters. |
| "Naked" means to be unprotected. "Nude" means unclothed. |
| Even though it is widely attributed to him Shakespeare never actually used the word 'gadzooks'. |
| The collecting of Beer mats is called Tegestology. |
| The term Cop comes from Constable on Patrol. It's from England. |
| Nova Scotia is Latin for 'New Scotland.' |
| There are more than 1,700 references to gems and precious stones in the King James translation of the Bible. |
| The Hawai'ian alphabet has 13 letters, A, E, I, O, U, H, K, L, M, N, P, W, ' (which is called an okina). |
| There are more than 40,000 characters in Chinese script. |
| The ampersand (&) was once a letter of the English alphabet. |
| The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "and the rest of the day to yourself." |
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