That's how imaginative I'm feeling today. I was searching for something that begins with X to write about, when I found a few interesting facts about the letter itself that I thought were worth sharing.
- X-rays were given that name because their discoverer, Wilheim Conrad Rontgen, didn't known what they were.
- Xs are drawn instead of eyes in cartoons, to indicate the death of a character.
- The letter X is the most known symbol of the 'straight edge' lifestyle, a subculture of hardcore punk whose followers refrain from using alcohol, tobacco and other recreational drugs
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4 comments:
Fun facts--especially the one about X-rays!
Thanks! I thought that one was pretty interesting too!
I knew about the cartoons but did not know about the X culture.
Coming over from A-Z.
~Naila Moon
http://yaknowstuff.blogspot.com/2012/04/x.html
Ha- maybe I'm a straight-edge punk! I'm trying to visit all the A-Z Challenge Blogs this month. My alphabet is at myqualityday.blogspot.com
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