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 beginsand 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
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
The longest place-name still in use is a New Zealand hill,
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwenuakitnatahu.
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."
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.
Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern
of whiskers.
Steely Dan got their name from a sexual device depicted in the book The Naked
Lunch.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered
over 160 children.
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.
Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood
donors.
John Larroquette of "Night Court" and "The John Larroquette Show" was the
narrator of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry
can be dribbled like a basketball.
The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles
away. (But does he CALL? NOOOOOO...)
The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand.
To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by
swearing on their testicles.
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."
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is
uncopyrightable.
Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does
arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms
for that reason.