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Headache

Headaches often feel like they originate in the head, but most commonly the cause is in the feet or hands.

Headaches often feel like they originate in the head, but most commonly the cause is in the feet or hands.

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Woodchuck

Professor Ryan McAllister from Cambridge University calculated the exact amount of wood a woodchuck would chuck if it could chuck wood. The answer was 24.

Pumpkins

The most effective marketing campaign of all time was created by Denis Snell in 1921. He was a pumpkin farmer and in that year had an excess of pumpkins. He made up the entire association of Halloween and pumpkins. Prior this this the vegetable for choice during Halloween was radishes.

Cough

The Icelandic word for 'cough' is: 'scásidlýðræskapurstkjn'. The word for 'I had a cough last Tuesday which resulted in a 3 day recovery' is: 'kapu'.

Sprint

The fact that the letter M can stand for miles and meters led to the last minute cancellation of the 100m sprint during the Paris Olympics of 1900. Concerns about the "exorbitant cost" of track construction had been completely ignored.