Did You Know Tuesday
Did you know that in the United States, the word for weight measurements, pound, is abbreviated 'lb' after the constellation 'Libra' because it means 'pound' in Latin?
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"...a phrase used by coastal Mainers. Of obscure origin and having nothing to do with the flesh of a pig, it denotes appreciation of anything from a profitable haul while fishing to a jug of cider, to a good looking pan of biscuits." --taken from "How to Talk Yankee", authors Gerald E. Lewis and Tim Sample, The Thorndike Press, copyright 1979
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