Fact, snippets of useless information and all of that kind of thing makes up most of what’s in my brain – so I thought I would infect the general interweb with al of this and see what fact I can trawl for you!
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Did you know…
I’ve sometimes wondered where the name came from, but it seems no one knows who first called our home Earth.
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I thought it came from an Anglo-Saxon word that meant ground–‘eorthe’. But I could be wrong lol!
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It might well be – but who first called it Earth?
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All these years, and I never even stopped to think about that😄.
Must be one of those ‘lost in the mists of time’ examples.
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This is the thing and there must be lots of that
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Always something new to learn😀
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No way!
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Yeah… apparently so
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Interesting thought. There are quite a lot of things of which we may never find out, who named them first.
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