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  • Chop Suey, whilst appearing on Chinese menus everywhere, was invented in USA. Chicken Tikka Masala is Scottish in origin and has no specific recipe, Hawaiian pizza was first made in Canada, Baked Alaska is from New York and Jerusalem artichokes are neither from Jerusalem nor artichokes (they are sunflower tubers). And you thought "Cheez Wizz" was stretching the imagination....
  • WD-40 derives its name from its designation as a Water Displacement fluid (WD) and that it was the 40th formula which its creators tested before being happy with the result of their endeavours.
  • The Savoy Hotel in London (England) has the only public road in Britain on which you drive on the right. This is so that the driver can open the passenger door and the passenger can get straight from car to hotel door without having to deal with British weather i.e. rain.
  • The name "hippopotamus" comes from the Greek words for "river" and "horse".  Hippos typically have either 2 or 4 teeth.  When they sweat they secrete an oily red substance which acts as both moisturizer and sunblock. When crossing a body of water, a hippo will chose whether to swim across the top or walk across the bottom. Despite their huge size, hippos can run at around 30 km/h (18.5 mph) over short distances.
  • Canned food was invented in 1810 but the world had to wait until 1858 before the can opener was invented.
  • When British TV resumed broadcasting in 1945 following the end of World War 2, it began with an announcement apologizing for the break in transmission.
  • All snakes are venomous. Those which do not use venom as a weapon in their bites still contain venom, which is used as a digestive aid, body lubricant and in order to taste unpleasant to predators.
  • In a bag of mixed nuts, any brazil nuts within will naturally rise towards the top in transit. Nobody knows why this happens.
  • A nun's cloth headpiece is called a wimple.
  • Cappuccino coffee is named after Cappuchin monks whose vestments are coffee coloured.
  • Alexander Graham Bell is credited as the inventor of the telephone but he never owned one, saying that he had no use for such a device in his personal life.
  • "Skeleton" comes from the Greek language, meaning "dried up".
  • When Usain Bolt won 100m gold at the Beijing olympics in 2008, breaking the World Record in the process, his left shoe lace was undone.