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#3297 - Words Fact     11  Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself." |
| #3298 - Words Fact 2 Ever wonder where the phrase "two bits" came from? Some coins used in the American colonies before the Revolutionary War were Spanish dollars, which could be cut into pieces, or bits. Since two pieces equaled one-fourth dollar, the expression "two bits" came into being as a name for 25 cents. |
| #3299 - Words Fact -1 Montgomery Ward was the first to advertise "Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back" in 1874 — two years after Aaron Montgomery Ward, launched his first mail-order catalog. |
| #3300 - Words Fact 8 OK is the most successful of all Americanisms. It has invaded hundreds of other languages and been adopted by them as a word. Mencken claims that US troops deployed overseas during WWII found it already in use by Bedouins in the Sahara to the Japanese in the Pacific. It was also the fourth word spoken on the surface of the moon. It stands for oll korrect, a misspelling of all correct. |
| #3301 - Words Fact 8 When Coca-Cola began to be sold in China, they used characters that would sound like "Coca-Cola" when spoken. Unfortunately, what they turned out to mean was "Bite the wax tadpole". |
| #3302 - Words Fact 3 Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired." |
| #3303 - Words Fact -2 Pokemon stands for "pocket monster." |
| #3304 - Words Fact 3 The name Ethiopia mean "land of sunburned faces" in Greek. |
| #3305 - Words Fact 4 A coward was originally a boy who took care of cows. |
| #3306 - Words Fact 5 The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows." |
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