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More people are allergic to cow’s milk than any other food.


And here's another fact!

Kingdom come a popular term used of someone who speaks in persuasive or seductive terms; the verb to blarney, meaning to employ persuasive flattery, and the noun blarney, for flattering talk, have the same derivation. The provenance for this expression can be found, literally, at blarney castle, near cork, in southwest ireland. Set high in the south wall of the castle is an almost inaccessible triangular stone bearing the inscription, cormac macarthy fortis me fieri fecit. In 1602, the same macarthy, lord of blarney, was defending the castle against the english, who were fighting to force him to surrender the fortress and transfer his allegiance to the english crown. However, macarthy smooth-talked the british emissary, sir george carew, with flattery and sweet promises and stood his ground, much to the fury of queen elizabeth i; it is said that the queen herself coined the term blarney to show the worthlessness of macarthy's promises. The tradition of kissing the blarney stone to improve one's eloquence and persuasive abilities - which can only be done by hanging, with one's feet securely held, head-down from the castle's battlements - dates from the 18th century. To blarney is also a slang american term meaning to pick locks.
 
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