If you are a freshly graduated advertising or PR major now diving into the job search, here are a few fun tidbits that may or may not impress your future employer (translation: I cannot be held legally responsible if you use one of these in an interview and it totally bombs).

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“Lorem ipsum” which Bs usually refer to as “Greek”, actually comes from the Latin “dolorem ipsum”, meaning “pain itself”.

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Check out this must-have t-shirt only art directors, production directors and printers will understand.

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When Coca-Cola entered the Chinese market in 1928, they struggled choosing Chinese characters that would approximate the sound “ko-ka-ko-la”. Chinese shopkeepers chose random combinations that translated to mean “female horse fastened with wax”, “wax-flattened mare”, and my personal favorite “bite the wax tadpole”. After sifting through 200 different characters, Coke’s own marketing geniuses finally found the perfect combination, literally translated “to allow the mouth to be able to rejoice”.

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Check out these 15 Brilliant Billboard Ads – just don’t claim any of them as your idea.

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Finally, if you caught the grammatical error in the title of this blog:

When Winston Churchill’s editor rearranged one of the Prime Minister’s sentences to avoid ending it in a preposition, Churchill wrote back: “This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.”