Also, Trivialis, meaning in Latin "Three roads" literally, actually meant "Street Corner". Trivialis also came to mean "Street Knowledge" in the same sense that we use that phrase now. So, something trivial was something common. This eventually changed to something that is so easy anybody can do it. Things would be dismissed as trivial (and thus not worth discussing). Trivia is the plural of trivial. So, it's a collection of things that have little or no point in talking about.
Testify comes from Latin for "Witness". Testicle thus means "Little Witness". Nobody seems quite sure why the Romans called them that, but they are sure they never swore on them.
The plural of octopus is octopuses. The plural of anything ending in "-us" is "-uses" because we are speaking ENGLISH not LATIN. Even if you wanted to be an ultra-pretentious douchebag, octopus has Greek roots, not Latin, so to achieve proper douchbaggary you should use the Greek plural, Octopodes.
Drains flow in a random direction depending on their angle and imperfections, regardless of hemisphere. However, all northern hemisphere toilets flush clockwise, and all southern toilets flush counter-clockwise. This is because designers mistakenly thought that the Coriolis effect would disrupt flow if it flushed the wrong way. However, they got it backwards, as Coriolis makes things move counter clockwise in the northern hemisphere.
would teleport you to a random part of the map. We had the gravity grenade that sucked everything towards it in at high speeds for 5 seconds then exploded. Then we had the MIRV grenade that, when it exploded, would turn into 8 more grenades that would bounce twice then explode themselves. We also had the force grenade that repelled everything that got close to it and you couldn't shoot past. Looks like they aren't very original ideas after all?
Back in the day of Quake 1 me and a friend from highschool pumped out tons of mods just for fun. One of them was Grenade Quake, which added like 20 kinds of grenades. We had the boring old proximity grenade that stuck to walls and exploded when you got near it. We had the dog grenade that shot a dog out and it flipped and span all around like a grenade did, then when it landed it ran at somebody then exploded. We had the teleport grenade that was like the proximity grenade but when it exploded it
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The plural of octopus is octopuses. The plural of anything ending in "-us" is "-uses" because we are speaking ENGLISH not LATIN. Even if you wanted to be an ultra-pretentious douchebag, octopus has Greek roots, not Latin, so to achieve proper douchbaggary you should use the Greek plural, Octopodes.
Drains flow in a random direction depending on their angle and imperfections, regardless of hemisphere. However, all northern hemisphere toilets flush clockwise, and all southern toilets flush counter-clockwise. This is because designers mistakenly thought that the Coriolis effect would disrupt flow if it flushed the wrong way. However, they got it backwards, as Coriolis makes things move counter clockwise in the northern hemisphere.