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Fact 196: When was MI5 formed?

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Fact 118: What is the most expensive man-made object?

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Fact 86: Where does the word biscuit come from?

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Fact 86: Where does the word biscuit come from? This answer may surprise you to know that the word came to England from the French and is a Latin word basically meaning twice baked this comes from the french and Latin word panis biscoctus, panis means basically in the shape of a loaf\or just bread this is french and biscoctus means twice-cooked from the Latin word bis meaning twice again, and the Latin word coctus meaning cooked or baked. This is because the biscuit were originally baked/cooked twice, (my guess is that the biscuit were probably cooked on both sides by being flipped but honestly I don't know). The word biscuit dates back to the Middle Ages (some time in about the 14th century).
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