Today's trivia

• Courtesy of welcomerain: "Wet fries" is Chicago-speak for "french fries with gravy". "Wet" and "dry" can also be used to qualify orders of Italian beef, "wet" being almost like a French dip.
• Courtesy of niemandsrose: Cravat comes from a French pronunciation of Flemish krawaat which is, in turn, a corruption of the Croatian autonym Hrvat. The neckware was introduced to Western Europe by Croatian mercenaries in the service of France.
• Courtesy of muckefuck: Dollar ultimately derives from High German Thaler. This was the name of a widely-circulated coin minted with silver from the mines of Joachimsthal "Joachim's Valley" (formerly simply Thal, today the Czech town of Jáchymov) in the Sudetenland.