Sailors consider black cats good luck. Some sailors use black cats as the ship’s cat in hopes of a safe voyage. Some fishermen’s wives would even keep a black cat at home as well in hopes of their husband’s safe return.
100 Mind-Blowing Wives Facts
The Spanish word for wife is ‘esposa’. The plural is esposas which translates to wives. However, it may also translate to handcuffs.
Tom Cruise got divorced from each of his three ex-wives when they reached the age of 33. Tom Cruise’s first wife was Mimi Rogers, he parted ways with her in 1989. Later he married Nicole Kidman, but they were not meant to be as they divorced in 2001. Cruise got married once again in 2006 to Katie Holmes but split with her just six years later in 2012. Fun Fact: Each of Tom Cruise’s ex-wives is successively eleven years younger than the last.
Smell test. A 17th-century King of Arakan chose wives by making women stand in the sun and then doing a blind sniff test on all their sweaty clothes. The ones he didn’t like he sent to lesser nobles.