Sunday Fun (Fact) Day

1. Caffeine in your coffee is caféine. Caffeine in your tea is théine.

2. Paperclips are trombones. Snorkel masks are tubas. Tubas are tubas, too.

3. Those little red letters on the eggs? They indicate production method, country of origin, which farm the eggs came from, and the expiration date. Like this:

   

4. “Et tu, Brute?” is “Tu quoque, mi fili?” My husband said this to me recently, and I had no idea what he was talking about. The first line comes from Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar,” while the second is the Latin translation of an apocryphal Greek quote.

5. Did you know that Celine’s logo was inspired by a fence chain that the brand’s founder took note of after getting into a fender bender near the Arc de Triomphe?

6. Say you used to live in New York and you’ve been living in France for a long time but you still have to 1) just dress like you did the day before or 2) convert the weather to Fahrenheit. Have we got a trick for you! Hint: 0° is 33rd Street.

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