Trivia Of The Day November 21

With well over 5,000 public toilets, Beijing claims to have more than any other capital city.

The word "tripe" comes from an 14th Century French term for guts and entrails. It has been used as a term of abuse for anything worthless since the 16th century.

Tripe in an Italian market

The earliest identified use of the word toothbrush in English was in the autobiography of Anthony Wood who wrote in 1690 that he had bought a toothbrush from J. Barret.

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