MISC. TRIVIA: You want to be a Millionaire? What is “interabang”?.
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- I. X-Ray machines were used to measure people’s shoe sizes in the year 1940. X-Rays were later found to be very dangerous at such frequent exposure, so its use at shoe shops ceased, restricted for medical use only.
An X-ray machine is any machine that involves X-rays.
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- II. Iguanas have an extra eye. Their normal two eyes are used to recognize other animals, things and places, while a third “eye” on the top of their head is used to sense brightness.
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Iguana is a genus of herbivorous lizards that are native to tropical areas of Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean. Wikipedia
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- III. The punctuation mark ?! is called an interabang. In some other English speaking parts of the world, this punctuation mark is called the ‘interrobang’.
The first (and admittedly the less likely) of the two stories starts where most things inevitably start: in Rome. The story goes that the question mark actually originated from the Latin word qvaestio, meaning question. This word was reportedly abbreviated in the Middle Ages by scholars as just qo. Eventually, a capital “Q” was written over the “o”, and it formed one letter. Then, it morphed into the modern question mark we know today. Here’s a picture so you can visualize it.
However, the actual evidence that this is the case is almost non-existant, for no medieval manuscript found thus-far supports this idea. In fact, it seems that the opposite holds true; the question mark morphs to look more like a q rather than less like a q as time passes.
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- IV. MySpace was once the leading social media platform, ahead of Tumblr, Twitter, Badoo and Facebook. Although Facebook put them out of business, they still had fifty million visitors per month in 2016.
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- V. In 1985, the droids in Star Wars, C-3PO and R2D2 had a whole season dedicated to them. It was titled, “Star Wars: Droids”. It was a single season with thirteen episodes showing different adventures of the droids.
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The exploits of R2-D2 and C-3PO, the droids who have appeared in all six “Star Wars” films.
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- VIThe owner of the ‘Happy Birthday’ song sued restaurants for singing the song before 1935, but its copyright claims were ruled to be invalid. Only the specific piano arrangement of the song is copyrighted till date.
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