Saturday, April 12, 2008

I Hate to Spoil it For You. . .

• Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of fur. The story was changed in the 1600s by a translator error.
• It was the left shoe that Aschenputtel (Cinderella) lost at the stairway, when the prince tried to follow her.
• In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."
• Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
• Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
• Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
• Dr. Seuss coined the word "nerd" in his 1950 book "If I Ran the Zoo"

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