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Week 48's Fact or Fiction
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It was once customary for ruling men in China to wear facial makeup as a symbol of wealth.
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Fact Smile
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#3
Sounds like it could be true so I'll also go with fact.
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Yay... I get to do a :cheer: Smile

In the late 1900s, it was the custom for Mandarin Chinese bureaucrats to let one of their fingernails grow four to five inches. The long fingernail displayed their wealth and their exemption from physical labour.

An axilla is the motor on a sailboat, used for powering the boat without sails.
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fiction
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dudette Wrote:fiction

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Axilla is a synonym for armpit. The word dates back to 1616. It stems from the Latin word ala, meaning "wing", "upper arm", or "armpit".

Nails are measured in pennies.
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Fingernails? :cheeky:

Otherwise, fact Smile
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dudette Wrote:Fingernails? :cheeky:

Otherwise, fact Smile

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The size of a nail is measured in pennies. The greater the number of pennies, the longer the nail. This measurement system originated in England in the 15th century. People paid a certain number of penies 100 nails of that size. For example, two pennies would be traded for 100 two-penny nails. The penny measurement is abbreviated by the letter d, which comes from a Roman coin called denarius.

Sherlock Holmes never said, "Elementary, my dear Watson."
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That is a fact Smile
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#10
agree --- fact
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