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Why we Kiss Under Mistletoe? (2016x14)

: 19, 2016

→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 →How "Dick" came to be short for 'Richard': https://youtu.be/BH1NAwwKtcg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP2Acy6g9Ta7hzC0Rr3RDS6q Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut Keanu Reeves Gives Away Millions ... and 6 other Celebrity Facts https://youtu.be/6F_NzmAQbg4?list=PLR0XuDegDqP1IHZBUZvKkPwkTr6Gr0OBO When Humans Started Shaving Different Parts of Our Bodies https://youtu.be/Am7uIOSxSH4?list=PLR0XuDegDqP0GESJ0DgpgTcThLJVEbFs8 In this video: The name for mistletoe derives the fact that mistletoe tends to spring from bird droppings that have fallen on trees, with the seeds having passed through the digestive tract of the birds. Thus, the plant was given the name “misteltan” in Old English from “mistel”, meaning “dung”, and “tan”, the plural of “ta”, meaning “twig”. Hence, “mistletoe” is another way to essentially say “dung twig”. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/12/the-word-mistletoe-literally-means-dung-twig/ Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistletoe http://landscaping.about.com/cs/winterlandscaping1/a/mistletoe.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cashew http://www.buzzle.com/articles/christmas-traditions-kissing-under-mistletoe.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kissing_traditions http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2361898/christmas_tradition_of_kissing_under.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldr http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frigg