Amazing Facts About Anything Thread

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During Prohibition, moonshiners would wear "cow shoes."

The fancy footwear left hoofprints instead of footprints, helping distillers and smugglers evade police. lol

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The 100 folds in a chef's toque are said to represent 100 ways to cook an egg.

In the early days, the number of pleats in the chef's hat represented the number of recipes a chef knew for a given food item, like egg or chicken. Having a hat with 100 pleats meant he knew 100 recipes to prepare with an egg. The same applied to the height of the hat. The taller the toque, the more a chef knew.

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Guinness once estimated that 93,000 liters of beer are lost in facial hair each year in the UK alone.