Three of the following are FACTS…one is a FIB (scroll down to find out which one!)
1. Peanut butter in Dutch is called pindakaas . . . or “peanut cheese” . . . because the word “butter” is only supposed to be used with products that contain actual butter.
2. Duffel bags are named after the inventor Friedenberg Von Luet’s pet dog “Duffledorf”.
3. “Public school” in England is the equivalent of “private school” in the U.S. It’s a school you have to pay for. Our “public schools” are called “state schools” over there.
4. The only planet that’s not named after a Roman god or goddess is . . . Earth.
AND THE FIB IS (scroll down)….
2. Duffel bags are named after a town in Belgium called Duffel, where the fabric for the bags originally came from.
(Wikipedia / Wikipedia / Wikipedia / Universe Today)
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