Interesting Facts to Consider
Thanks to The Little Book of Answers by Doug Lennox, you can learn these interesting facts.
Learning something new every day helps to increase your IQ. Here are some fun facts that you
may not know… yet.
Why do we call someone who continually takes the fall for someone else a “whipping boy”?
In the mid-seventeenth century, young princes and aristocrats were sent off to school with a
young servant who would attend classes and receive an education while also attending to his
master’s needs. If the master found himself in trouble, the servant would take the punishment
for him, even if it were a whipping. He was his master’s “whipping boy.”
Why do we say that someone who inherited wealth was “born with a sliver spoon in his
mouth”?
If someone is “born with a silver spoon in his mouth,” it means that he was born into wealth
rather than having had to earn it. The expression comes from an old custom of godparents
giving the gift of a spoon to a child at its christening to signify their responsibility for its
nourishment and well-being. If they were wealthy, the spoon was usually silver, and if not, it
would be pewter or tin.
Source:
Lennox, D. (2003). People & Places. In The Little Book of Answers (pp. 27-29). New York, New York: MJF Books Fine
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