• Disposophobia: the irrational fear of throwing anything away. A person who suffers from disposophobia is a HOARDER (noun)
• Tubaligation
• Adirondack chairs
• Hydroplane
• Malapropism
• Palindrome
• Xenophobia
• Al Green - Alan Greenspan
• simon & garfunkel
• syllogism
• psychosomatic
• Quid pro quo
• 5 Stages of Grief
  • Denial (this isn't happening to me!)
  • Anger (why is this happening to me?)
  • Bargaining (I promise I'll be a better person if...)
  • Depression (I don't care anymore)
  • Acceptance (I'm ready for whatever comes)
• Double entendres
• Murphy's Law: Everything that can go wrong will go wrong
• White truffles come from Italy. Conditions have to be perfect. It is very very rare
• Black truffles come from Provence, France
• Balsamic: 12 years old, comes from modena
• 3 Meal Stages in Italian Cuisine: Antipasti | Primi (pasta) | Sicondi (meat)
• Studies show the more materialistic you are, the lower your self esteem.
• 4 national languages of Switzerland: French, German, Italian and Romansch
• The Father Of Modern Medicine - Hippocrates
• Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
• The Inventor of the Polio Vaccine - Dr. Jonas Salk. He never patented his invention. He gave it for free
• The study also found we tend to pair up with people whose facial features have a similar level of symmetry – a sign of beauty – to our own.

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HOW DID THESE TERMS COME ABOUT

• Wife beater
• Lazy Susan
• Granny Smith Apples