Trivia Junction

A Compendium of trivia I find interesting
...for the curious

Rice paper has no rice and other mistakes

Rice paper is not made from rice, but from the pith of the rice-paper tree, a small Asiatic member of the ginseng family.

And India ink does not come from India. It originates from China, and was first mistakenly referred to as “India ink” by English diarist Samuel Pepsys in 1665.

 

 

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