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[TexasLawman]

DID YOU KNOW THESE THINGS HAD NAMES???🤔

1. The space between your eyebrows is called a glabella.

2. The way it smells after the rain is called petrichor.

3. The plastic or metallic coating at the end of your shoelaces is called an aglet.

4. The rumbling of stomach is actually called a wamble.

5. The cry of a new born baby is called a vagitus.

6. The prongs on a fork are called tines.

7. The sheen or light that you see when you close your eyes and press your hands on them is called phosphenes.

8. The tiny plastic table placed in the middle of a pizza box is called a box tent.

9. The day after tomorrow is called

overmorrow.

10. Your tiny toe or finger is called minimus.

11. The wired cage that holds the cork in a bottle of champagne is called an agraffe.

12. The 'na na na' and 'la la la', which don't really have any meaning in the lyrics of any song, are called vocables.

13. When you combine an exclamation mark with a question mark (like this ?!), it is referred to as an interrobang.

14. The space between your nostrils is called columella nasi.

15. The armhole in clothes, where the sleeves are sewn, is called armscye.

16. The condition of finding it difficult to get out of the bed in the morning is called dysania.

17. Illegible hand-writing is called griffonage.

18. The dot over an “i” or a “j” is called tittle.

19. That utterly sick feeling you get after eating or drinking too much is called crapulence.

20. The metallic device used to measure your feet at the shoe store is called Bannock device.

[greaterexp]

Handy things to know for crossword puzzles.

[2littletime]

I can't wait to use some of those "new" words. Especially crapulence. Hehehe

[TexasLawman in reply to 2littletime]

LOLOLOL

[Boxofchocolates]

I'll think about this overmorrow when we pop open the agraffe! 😂

[TexasLawman in reply to Boxofchocolates]

😂😂😂😂

[CrazyCatWom]

A couple of those, I actually knew. And one, had the definition not preceded the word, I would have said, "I think an antibiotic and a salve would cure that."

[mrsmike9 in reply to CrazyCatWom]

Me, too! There were several!

[daveh121]

Might be good for a quiz night. We don’t have them in the US. We were going to try one at our local pub then the virus hit.

[agapepilgrim]

Thanks, I will file those in the soon to be forgotten file although I did know about the tittle. It goes along with a “jot” meaning the smallest of anything as “to every hot or tittle.” And did you know the space between your eyes is called your 3rd eye? We need to know all this for the quiz for dementia

[jimeka]

The only one I knew was no 6. Reading that I am not too intelligent 😂

[Texandyroe in reply to jimeka]

That’s the only one I knew, too. I prefer to think that we don’t clutter our brains up with useless trivia, saving the unused spaces for knowledge of where to find more chocolate 🤣

[erash]

I knew several of these and suffer from # 17...does that make me a harborer of useless info 🤪

[Mermaidia11]

I love stuff like this

thank you cowboy @texaslawman

Knowledge is Power after all

and great to know for fam quizzes, zoom quizzes, Random quiz shows, scrabble, Alexa’s quizzes.....

it all comes in handy and keeps that brain elastic

Thanks chief V much

Have a good day planning your cowboy quiz everyone!

[Ali_B62]

Wonder if I could get away with telling people I suffer terribly from dysania, 😂

[pamgarner]

I knew 4 but i KNEW there was a name to 16,had to be

[Violonchelo]

Very nice, the theory 👍👍😍😍

[IFwczs]

Americans have a hard time understanding English regular words, this information would just completely incapacitate their brains... Please post more jokes!

[CrazyCatWom in reply to IFwczs]

Yes, but aren't we two nations separated by a common language?

[IFwczs in reply to CrazyCatWom]

[rjoneslaw]

It's goo d for when you're at a party with nothing to say

[TexasLawman in reply to rjoneslaw]

Except that none of us will remember any of them. Haha

[rjoneslaw in reply to TexasLawman]

you're right about that

here is a fact you'll 4get the reindeer who pull santa's sled are all females. Male deer loose their antlers in the winter

[CrazyCatWom in reply to rjoneslaw]

Umm, nah--I always just launched into a history lesson. Soon everybody would get so bored, they'd wander off.

[rjoneslaw in reply to CrazyCatWom]

that can be bad

[falalalala]

I can see #12 but #19?

Lolol

[carolek572 CommunityAmbassador]

Na na na na, Na na na na, Heeeeeyyyy, Good Bye, TexasLawman Please Post More!

[mrsmike9]

The groove between your upper lip and nose is a philtrum.

[hairbrain4]

Ok im scared. I know 8 of them!