20 ‘interesting’ facts
- The longest one-syllable word in the English language is “screeched.”
- “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt”
- Almonds are members of the peach family.
- The symbol on the “pound” key (#) is called an octothorpe.
- The dot over the letter ‘i’ is called a tittle.
- Ingrown toenails are hereditary.
- The word “set” has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
- “Underground” is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters “und.”
- There are only four words in the English language which end in “-dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
- 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 its plural: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosesl.
- The longest place-name still in use isTaumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwe-nuakit natahu, a New Zealand hill.
- Los Angeles’s full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reinade los Angeles de Porciuncula” and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size,L.A.
- 14. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
- Alfred Hitchcock didn’t have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
- Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.
- The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint – no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.
- A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
- 23. 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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