Of the 17k+ words Shakespeare used, over 1700 are recorded there for the first time
Here is a list of some of the words that we use in our daily speech that were brought into usage by Shakespeare:
- addiction
- bloodstained
- cold-blooded
- disgraceful
- eyeball
- to gossip
- lackluster
- moonbeam
- perplex
- to swagger
- zany
(Source: weirdfacts.com)
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p.s. we’re gonna start posting again soon sorry about that
10 things you (probably) didn’t know about death
1. When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go — the first is usually sight, followed by taste, smell and touch
2. A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it has been decapitated
3. 100 people choke to death on pens each year. One is more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a spider
4. Alexander’s funeral would have cost $600 million today. A road from Egypt to Babylon was built to carry his body
5. When inventor Thomas Edison died in 1931, his friend Henry Ford captured his last dying breath in a bottle
6. Over 2500 left-handed people are killed each year from using products made for right-handed people
7. It takes longer than ever before a body to decompose due to preservatives in the food that we eat these days
8. An eternal flame lamp at the tomb of a Buddhist priest in Nara, Japan has kept burning for 1,130 years
9. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry is the first person to have his ashes put aboard a rocket and ‘buried’ in space
10. Japanese factory worker Kenji Urada became the first know fatality caused by a robot in July, 1981, in a car plant.
“Facts are to the mind what food is to the body”