I am particularly fond of etymology and also silly things, so finding out the origin of ‘to curry favour’ was particularly satisfying:
First, curry is the word meaning to brush or groom a horse, not the Indian spice. And the second word was originally Fauvel, the name of a horse in a satirical French medieval poem from the early 1300s.
Stan Hingston
Look I even found Fauvel! This is him!
The etymology stuff is from this delightful blog over here while the lovely image is from wikipedia.
