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Vaknin, Sam, 1961-

"The First Book of Factoids"


It is not. "Berliner" in German means "that which belongs to Berlin or
of Berlin". The Berlin Wall is the "Berliner Mauer", for instance.
Berlinerin is the female form of Berliner. Kennedy was grammatically
correct to have said "Ich bin ein Berliner".
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa021700a.htm

http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/berliner.htm

Bible

The Jews do not include the 27 books of New Testament in their Bible.
The factoids below relate to the version of the Bible used by
Christians everywhere: Old (39 books) and New Testament. Altogether
1189 chapters (929 of which are in the Old Testament), 31173 verses.
The Old Testament contains 592439 words (2728100 letters), the New
Testament contains 181253 words (838380 letters). Of the 27 books of
the New Testament, 14 were written by St. Paul.

The Bible contains words in Hebrew, Aramaic and Koine Greek.

The Bible is the bestseller of all times. More than 50 copies are
still being sold every minute. The Bible is also the most shoplifted
book in the world.

According to the Concordance - a compilation of the words and names in
the Bible - cats are not mentioned at all.


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