Some Info

1. The name for Oz in the Wizard of Oz was t A-N and O-Z.
2. Booze is a word that originated from the dutch word buyzer, meaning ‘to drink heavily’. It was first used in print as early as 1590.
3. The first known marketer of the flushing toilet was Thomas crapper.
4. The grimm brothers (Jacob and Wilhelm), of Grimm’ Fairy Tales fame, were not storytellers but merely collectors of fairy tales. They were language scholars who collected and codified the stories in the early 19th century as an exercise in comparative German philology and grammar.
5. The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.
6. Ever wonder how Swiss cheese is made? As the cheese ferments, a bacterial action generates gas. As the gas is liberated, it bubbles through the cheese, leaving all those holes.