Believe it or not, chop suey is actually an American dish, and it dates from 1860s.

While the name was derived from the Cantonese "shap sui" ("mixed bits"), it doesn’t mean that it actually originated in China.

While no one knows who exactly started the dish, what’s clear is that it was first made in America. Whether by Americans or immigrant Chinese, no one knows.:o

Whether or not you believe it, each pack of Skittles has an equal distribution of 20% for each flavor.

An elephant was tried in 1916 for murder, and then eventually hung for murder. Mary the elephant killed Red Eldridge, a drifter who was so desperate for a job, he applied as the elephant handler.

I just read online that there’s a movement to get rid of some words from the dictionary. Similarly, there’s a petition going on to save your favorite word from the list, so that it won’t be removed - by making use of these words themselves!

Here’s the list:

Abstergent Cleansing or scouring

Agrestic Rural; rustic; unpolished; uncouth

Apodeictic Unquestionably true by virtue of demonstration

Caducity Perishableness; senility

Caliginosity Dimness; darkness

Compossible Possible in coexistence with something else

Embrangle To confuse or entangle

Exuviate To shed (a skin or similar outer covering)

Fatidical Prophetic

Fubsy Short and stout; squat

Griseous Streaked or mixed with grey; somewhat grey

Malison A curse

Mansuetude Gentleness or mildness

Muliebrity The condition of being a woman

Niddering Cowardly

Nitid Bright; glistening

Olid Foul-smelling

Oppugnant Combative, antagonistic or contrary

Periapt A charm or amulet

Recrement Waste matter; refuse; dross

Roborant Tending to fortify or increase strength

Skirr A whirring or grating sound, as of the wings of birds in flight

Vaticinate To foretell; prophesy

Vilipend To treat or regard with contempt

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Apparently, some researchers have given octopi test subjects Rubik’s Cubes to find out if they favor a tentacle over seven others.

Let’s just hope that an octopus doesn’t squirt ink all over the cube, or they won’t be able to solve the puzzle using their amazing Octopi-problem solving skills.