Did you know about Words

• Did you know 'Topolino' is the name for Mickey Mouse Italy
• Did you know dreamt is the only word that ends in mt
• Did you know the first letters of the months July through to November spell JASON
• Did you know spiders are arachnids and not insects
• Did you know stewardesses is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand
• Did you know the Internet was originally called ARPANet (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) designed by the US department of defense
• Did you know African Grey Parrots have vocabularies of over 200 words
• Did you know 1 googol is the number 1 followed by 100 zeros
• Did you know the word laser stands for 'Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation'
• Did you know the Australian aircraft carrier QANTAS stands for Queensland And Northern Territories Aerial Service
• Did you know there are only 4 words in the English language which end in 'dous' (they are: hazardous, horrendous, stupendous and tremendous)
• Did you know the oldest word in the English language is 'town'
• Did you know 'Bookkeeper' and 'bookkeeping' are the only 2 words in the English language with three consecutive double letters
• Did you know the word 'Strengths' is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel
• Did you know a group of frogs is called an army
• Did you know a group of rhinos is called a crash
• Did you know a group of kangaroos is called a mob
• Did you know a group of whales is called a pod
• Did you know a group of geese is called a gaggle
• Did you know a group of owls is called a parliament
• Did you know the dot on top of the letter 'i' is called a tittle
• Did you know the past tense for the English word 'dare' is 'durst'
• Did you know the word 'uncopyrightable' is the is the only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating any letter
• Did you know the word 'testify' derived from a time when men were required to swear on their testicles
• Did you know the word typewriter is the longest word that can be typed using only the top row of a keyboard
• Did you know that you can spell the word 'level' the same backwards
• Did you know VHS stands for Video Home System
• Did you know the WD in WD-40 stands for Water Displacer
• Did you know the word racecar can be spelled the same way backwards
• Did you know the word 'underground is the only word that begins and ends with the letters 'und'
• Did you know the word 'almost' is the longest word spelt alphabetically
• Did you know the coloured part of your eye is called the iris
• Did you know the meaning of 'Blue Chip' comes from blue casino chips which have a high value
• Did you know the term 'disc jockey' was first used in 1937
• Did you know 1 gigayear = 1,000,000,000,000 years
• Did you know Rio de Janeiro translates to river of January
• Did you know the word old English word 'juke' meaning dancing lends its name to the juke box
• Did you know EMI awards stands for 'Electrical and Musical Instruments'
• Did you know a Sphygmomanometer measures blood pressure
• Did you know a group of whales is called a pod
• Did you know a female ferret is called a jill
• Did you know the side of a hammer is called a cheek
• Did you know Pinocchio is Italian for 'pine head'
• Did you know the longest word that can be typed using only our right hand is 'lollipop'
• Did you know 1 out of every 8 letters written is an e
• Did you know the word 'lethologica' describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want
• Did you know Shakespeare invented the words 'assassination' and 'bump'
• Did you know The sixth sick sheik`s sixth sheep`s sick' is said to be the toughest tongue twister
• Did you know the longest one syllable word in the English language is 'screeched'
• Did you know the atomic symbol for iron is Fe (the original name for iron was Ferric)
• Did you know'underground' is the only word that begins and ends with the letters 'und'
• Did you know the ball on top of a flag pole is called the truck
• Did you know the opposite of a 'vacuum' is a 'plenum'
• Did you know M*A*S*H stood for 'Mobile Army Surgical Hospital'
• Did you know 'fan' is short for 'fanatic'
• Did you know clinophobia is the fear of going to bed
• Did you know the number 4 is the only number that has the same number of letters in it
• Did you know you can't trademark surnames
• Did you know the 'you are here' arrow on maps is called an ideo locator
• Did you know a group of foxes is called a skulk
• Did you know a connected bunch of bananas is called a hand and individual bananas are called fingers
• Did you know arachibutyrophobia is fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth
• Did you know a 15th anniversary is called a quindecennial
• Did you know a nanosecond is one billionth of a second
• Did you know brontology is the study of thunder
• Did you know the expression to 'knuckle down' originated from playing marbles (players used to put their knuckles to the ground for their best shots)
• Did you know 'orology' is the study of mountains
• Did you know the word denim comes from 'de Nimes' or from Nimes which is a town in France
• Did you know the vocabulary of the average person is between 5,000 to 6,000 words
• Did you know DNA stands for Deoxyribonucleicacid
• Did you know the study of insects is called entomology
• Did you know the word 'karate' means 'empty hand'
• Did you know the word fortnight is a contraction of the 2 words 'fourteen nights'
• Did you know the word 'almost' is the longest in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order
• Did you know a pip is one of the spots on die or domino
• Did you know the most commonly used word in English conversation is 'I'
• Did you know the word 'taxi' is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, and Portuguese
• Did you know ablutophobia is the fear of bathing
• Did you know achluophobiais the fear of the dark
• Did you know acrophobia is the fear of heights
• Did you know agoraphobia is the fear of wide open spaces
• Did you know aichmophobia is the fear of needles and pointed objects
• Did you know akousticophobia is the fear of noises
• Did you know amathophobia is the fear of dust
• Did you know atychiphobia is the fear of failure
• Did you know brontophobia is the fear of thunderstorms
• Did you know catoptrophobia is the fear of mirrors
• Did you know dendrophobia is the fear of trees
• Did you know gatophobia is the fear of cats
• Did you know heliophobia is the fear of sunlight
• Did you know helminthophobia is the fear of worms
• Did you know herpetophobia is the fear of reptiles
• Did you know hippophobia is the fear of horses
• Did you know iatrophobia is the fear of doctors
• Did you know ichthyophobia is the fear of fish
• Did you know melissophobia is the fear of bees
• Did you know melophobia is the fear of music
• Did you know myrmecophobia is the fear of ants
• Did you know ombrophobia is the fear of rain
• Did you know ornithophobia is the fear of birds
• Did you know siderodromophobia is the fear of trains
• Did you know tachophobia is the fear of speed
• Did you know zoophobia is the fear of animals
• Did you know sesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words
• Did you know triscadecaphobia is the fear of the number 13
• Did you know the little hole in some sinks that lets the water drain out instead of flowing is called a 'porcelator'

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