A great wikipedia article. I love these. One of my favorites:
Entrapment law in the United States does not forbid police officers from going undercover, or from denying that they are police. It is a common misconception among persons engaged in low-level crime that if an undercover police officer is asked, “Are you a cop?” that they must reveal themselves to avoid entrapment.
Oh, and If the Eskimos have a thousand words for snow, then:
The Inuit do not have a large number of words for snow. One Eskimo-Aleut language studied had four unrelated root words, but because it is a polysynthetic language, in which sentences are formed by compounding words, one can use these roots to create an infinite number of “words” about snow. By comparison, English has many unrelated root words for snow as well: snow, sleet, powder, flurry, drift, and blizzard.
But snowclones are still the new black.
