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What is the origin of Groundhog Day?

What is the origin of Groundhog Day?

Is it “chomping at the bit” or “champing at the bit”?

Is it “chomping at the bit” or “champing at the bit”?

Why do we go to hell “in a handbasket”?

Why do we go to hell “in a handbasket”?

Who was Jethro Tull?

Who was Jethro Tull?

What is a poop deck?

What is a poop deck?

Which came first, the word “crap” or Thomas Crapper’s toilet innovations?

What percentage of the human body is made up of other organisms?

Why drop a ball at midnight on New Year’s Eve?

Why drop a ball at midnight on New Year’s Eve?

What does “Auld Lang Syne” mean?

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Is the name Xmas a secular creation?

Is the name Xmas a secular creation?

What was the last letter added to the alphabet?

What’s the difference between a cemetery and a graveyard?

Which came first – the electric car or the gasoline car?

What Canadian political party famously vowed to repeal the law of gravity?

What Canadian political party famously vowed to repeal the law of gravity?

Why is October the 10th month of the year not the 8th?