- Q is the only letter that does not appear in the names of any state of the United State.
- Panagram is a sentence that contains all 26 letter in alphabet. Example: "Pack my red box with five dozen quality jugs"
- White part in your fingernail is called the lunula.
- The world's largest alphabet is Cambodian, with 74 letters.
- In Ancient Roman the left side of the human body was thought of as evil and the right side was good. The Latin word for left is "sinister"
- The two lines that connect your top lip to the bottom of your nose are known as the philtrum.
- "Four" is the only number whose number of letters in the name equals the number.
- This thing is not a slash: /. It is called a solidus or an obolus.
- The longest word in Oxford Dictionary is "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" it has 45 letters.
- Palindrome is a sentence that if read backward says the same thing. Example: "Straw? No, too stupid a fad, I put soot on warts."
- The word "samba" means "to rub navels together"
- The ridges on the sides of coins are called reeding or milling.
- "Honorificabilitudinitatibus" is the longest word consisting entirely of alternating vowels and consonants.
- The plastic things in the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
- The shortest "-ology" (study of) word is oology, the study of eggs.
- Cannibalism, eating human flesh, is also called anthropophagy.
- The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
- SWIMS is the longest word with 180-degree rotational symmetry (if you were to view it upside-down it would still be the same word and perfectly readable.)
- The study of word origins is called etymology.
- If all numbers are arranged in alphabetical order, "eight" would be the first number. "Zero" would be the last number.
- The "O" when used as a prefix in Irish surnames means "descendant of"
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