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Approximately one-sixth of
your life is spent on Wednesdays.
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Honey is the only food that
does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted
by archaeologists and found edible.
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Coca-Cola would be green if
colouring weren’t added to it.
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Rhythm" is the longest
English word without a vowel.
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Dolphins sleep with one eye
open!
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The longest one-syllable word in the English
language is "screeched."
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"Dreamt" is the only English word
that ends in the letters "mt".
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Almonds are members of the peach
family.
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The symbol on the "pound" key (#)
is called an octothorpe.
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The dot over the letter 'i' is called a
tittle.
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The word "set" has more definitions
than any other word in the English language.
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"Underground" is the only word in
the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."
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There are only four words in the
English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous,
stupendous, and hazardous.
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The longest word in the English language,
according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is
*pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the
same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its
plural.
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The longest place-name still in use is
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiw en
uaitnatahu, a New Zealand hill.
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Los Angeles's full name is "El
Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can
be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "L.A."
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An ostrich's eye is bigger than its
brain.
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Tigers have striped skin, not just
striped fur.
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Donald Duck's middle name is
Fauntleroy.
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The muzzle of a lion is like a
fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.
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A pregnant goldfish is called a twit
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There is a seven letter word in the
English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its
letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere,
therein, herein.
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Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both
parties are registered blood donors.
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It's impossible to sneeze with your
eyes open.
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Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by
bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
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The male gypsy moth can
"smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.
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The letters KGB stand for
KomitetGosudarstvennoyBezopasnosti
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"Stewardesses" is the longest
word that can be typed with only the left hand.
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To "testify" was based on men in the Roman
court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
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The combination "ough" can be
pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all:
"A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets
of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and
hiccoughed."
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Emus and kangaroos cannot walk
backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
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The word "Checkmate" in chess
comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king
is dead."
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The reason firehouses have circular
stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The
horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight
staircases.
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Our eyes are always the same size from birth,
but our nose and ears never stop growing.
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Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination'
and 'bump'.
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The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches
for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
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TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be
made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
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Women blink nearly twice as much as
men.
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Your stomach has to produce a new layer of
mucus every two week otherwise it will digest itself.
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There are two words in the English language
that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and
"facetious."
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There is a word in the English language with
only one vowel, which occurs five times: "indivisibility."
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The Bible does not say there were three wise
men; it only says there were three gifts.
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Did you know that crocodiles never outgrow
the pool in which they live?
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That means that if you put a baby croc in an
aquarium, it would be little for the rest of its life.
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The only 15-letter word that can be spelled
without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"
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Thirty-five percent of the people who use
personal ads for dating are already married. ;)
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