Gossip - Did you know that...

History
Did you know that...

• Nice (Nicaea) was probably founded around 350 BC by the Greeks of Massilia (Marseille)?
• The Greeks settled in Cimiez, instead of near the beach? And that the Romans settled there afterwards?
• Nice (Nizza in Italian) was a part of Italy (the House of Savoy) from 1388 to 1860?
• In 1561 Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy, abolished the use of Latin as an administrative language and established the Italian language as the official language of government affairs in Nice?
• That for centuries the border between Italy and France was at the place where nowadays the airport is?
• Giuseppe Garibaldi, born in Nice, strongly opposed the cession to France and that in 1866 there were even popular riots in the city, promoted by "Garibaldini" in favour of the unification of Nice to Italy?

Food
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• You can buy the best fillet steaks in Nice in Galeries Lafayette (basement), on Place Massena?
• The Monoprix in Avenue Jean Medecin has more and better stuff than the Monoprix on Place Garibaldi?
• The Monoprix in Avenue Jean Medecin has a great variety in fresh fish?
• There is a good Asian Supermarket in Boulevard Risso, and an even better one in 19, Rue Miollis?
• That they even sell Calvé peanut butter there? (The real, good stuff, to make real Indonesian satay sauce?)

Drinks
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• Irish pub McMahons on Boulevard Jean Jaurès has new (French) ownership and that they have more than doubled their prices?
• Many expats are refusing to go there anymore, unless the old prices and the young Australian waitresses are back?
• The French owner doesn't know that (and why?) we are able to tell the difference between his tight-ass French staff and the Irish, English, Scotch, American and Australian people that worked there before?

Transport
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• You can use your bus ticket on the tram?
• You can use your tram ticket on the bus?
• Your 4 euros "pass" ticket is valid 24 hours?
• You can travel 74 minutes on your 1 euro ticket (in one direction)?
• There are night buses from 10 pm to about 1 am that take you almost anywhere in the city for 1 euro?
• Côte d'Azur International Airport is the third most important airport in France after Charles de Gaulle International Airport and Orly Airport in Paris and that it accounted for 9,948,035 passengers travelling through its gates in 2006?
• They counted Jack double?

Miscellaneous
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• Admission to most museums in Nice is free on every first Sunday of the month?
• The gay guy in the post office in Vieux Nice has a real nasty mood if he didn't get layed the night before?
• All English and American movies shown in French cinemas are dubbed, unless it says V.O. (Version Originale)?
• It 'll probably cost you more when you negotiate the price with a taxi driver, than when you just pay the price?
• There are no smoke detectors in the toilets of Nice airport?
• There are smoke detectors in the toilets of British airports, except in the toilets for disabled people?
• That Jack, for whatever reason, always uses the toilets for disabled people?