Anyone got any strange but true facts?

About the etymology of the word “bombshell” to describe a beautiful woman: A “bombshell” can be any shattering or devastating act or event. A “blonde bombshell” wasn’t simply a good-looking gal, but one whose vitality or physique were downright startling. It’s not entirely unrelated to the war, however: this meaning of “bombshell” came into use only in 1942. (Source: Oxford English Dictionary.) An alternative theory suggests that the origin is in 1933, when Jean Harlow released a movie named “Bombshell”, and one of the tags was “Lovely, luscious, exotic Jean Harlow as the Blonde Bombshell of filmdom.” WWI was done in 1918.

Despite the view that “courtly love” was invented in the Middle Ages (which is more or less correct), the actual term “courtly love” wasn’t invented until 1896 by L.F. Mott.

Iceland is actually rather green.

….and Greenland is actually rather white. ;)

A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.

@perspicacious OMG!! Wonder if it would be worth more flattened or lumpy?

Three of the kings in a card deck have a mustache. The king of hearts does not.

@Nullo My friend believed that lie when she left to spend two years on Iceland.
Be grateful she isn’t a jelly.