15 Surprising Facts That Seem Like Lies
The internet is filled with wild facts that seem too good to be true.
One such fact is about the terms "uppercase" and "lowercase" letters. It is assumed that they are called so because uppercase letters are taller than lowercase letters, but that is not the case. The technical terms for the letters are majuscule for uppercase scripts and miniscule for lowercase scripts, which both have Latin roots.
We call them "uppercase" and "lowercase" because printers kept letters in trays called "cases." In those cases, capital letters went in the upper case and minuscule in the lower case.
Another surprising fact is about John Tyler, the 10th president of the United States, who was born in 1790. Up until the 2020s, he had two living
grandsons, not great-great-grandsons or great-grandsons, but grandsons.
Author's summary: Discover surprising facts that seem too good to be true.
- Uppercase and lowercase letters are named after printer's trays.
- John Tyler had living grandsons until the 2020s.
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