Trivia Of The Day June 17

The word “dude” was coined by Oscar Wilde and his friends as a hybrid of duds” (slang for clothes) and “attitude”.

The American War of Independence's Battle of Bunker Hill between the Colonists and British was fought on June 17, 1775 outside of Boston. Thousands of Bostonians sat on rooftops, in trees, on church steeples, and in the rigging of ships in the harbor to watch the American revolutionaries battle the British.

The Battle of Bunker Hill, by Howard Pyle, 1897

Iceland has the highest number of writers, books published, and books read per capita than any other country, with one in ten Icelanders expected to publish a book.

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