Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump.'
"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand; "lollipop" is the longest with your right hand.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The Bible does not say that there were 3 wise men; it says only that there were 3 gifts.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."
The cruise liner, QE2, moves just six inches for each gallon of diesel fuel that it burns.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left. These are known as 'palindromes.'
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar, starting with 100 one cent coins.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
There are more chickens in the world than there are people.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": these are tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
There are only two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs five times: "indivisibility."
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
Two-thirds of the world's eggplants are grown in New Jersey.
"Typewriter" is the longest word that can be typed using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer
of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.
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