1. The first thing someone invented that could break the sound barrier was . . . the whip.
2. There’s an actual law in Scotland where any man who gets caught wearing underwear under his kilt can be fined two cans of beer.
3. There are 50 places where you can legally cross the border between the United States and Mexico.
4. The word for the male equivalent of a mistress is a “cicisbeo.”
(Pronounced chih chiz BAY oh.)
So if your wife has a guy on the side, she’s got a cicisbeo.
Here is today’s bonus fact:
5.
Neil Simon
intentionally wrote a bad Broadway play called
“Fools”
, because his ex-wife had just won the rights to his next play in their divorce. So he wanted to make one that would flop. And it did . . . it only ran for one month in 1981.
(
Aerospace Web
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The Scotsman
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Wikipedia
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Oxford Dictionaries
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Wikipedia
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