The Giant Book Of Shocking Facts (The Big Book Of Facts 14) by Jake Jacobs

The Giant Book Of Shocking Facts (The Big Book Of Facts 14) by Jake Jacobs

Author:Jake Jacobs [Jacobs, Jake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-13T00:00:00+00:00


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A microwave popcorn customer developed popcorn lung and won a $7 million lawsuit after eating 2 bags of popcorn a day for 10 years.

Reference: (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/colorado-man-wayne-watson-wins-7-million-in-popcorn-lung-lawsuit/)

504.

The phrase "...and the agony of defeat." used in the opening fanfare of the Wide World of Sports was etymologically correct as “agony” comes from the Greek work “agonia” meaning "contest" or "struggle". It slowly came to mean the pain, like the defeated would feel after a contest.



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