Useless Gyan

FROM ISSUE # 146 (February 2008) | IN THIS ISSUE
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The primary ambition of a Zulu's wife is to help her husband acquire sufficient means to buy another wife...  so they can split the chores.

More than 10,000 marriages a year now are directly traceable to romances which begin during coffee breaks. 

Husbands who kiss their wives before leaving home in the morning have been documented to live five years longer than those who do not. 

King Ferrand of Portugal was held captive from 1213 to 1226 by the Turks. They demanded ransom, but Portugal's Queen Jeanne refused to pay for her husband's return. She had beaten him in a chess game, and he had therefore hit her on the nose with his fist. It upset her considerably.

The German language contains 30 words that refer to the act of kissing. There is even a word, Nachkuss, for all the kisses that haven't yet been named. 

Honeymoon -  The word first appears in the 16th century. The honey is a reference to the sweetness of a new marriage. And the moon is not a reference to the lunar-based month, but rather a bitter acknowledgment that this sweetness, like a full moon, would quickly fade. 

You're more likely to catch the common cold virus by shaking hands than by kissing.

Ladies in nudist camps tend to use more makeup than ladies elsewhere.