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Did You Know? The area where military personnel socialize and eat is called a ‘mess‘.

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Did You Know? ‘Strengths‘, at nine letters long, is the longest word in the English language with only one vowel.

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Did You Know? In England, in the 1880‘s, ‘Pants‘ was considered a dirty word.

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Did You Know? There are 13 ways to spell the ‘o‘ sound in French.

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Did You Know? Swaffelen (or zwaffelen) is a Dutch term meaning to hit one‘s penis, often repeatedly against an object or another person‘s body.

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Did You Know? According to Ted Houston, couples who have intense, Hollywood-type romances at the beginning are more likely to divorce.

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Did You Know? In Australian slang, the word ‘freckle‘ means ‘anus‘.

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Did You Know? The correct response to the Irish greeting, ‘Top of the morning to you‘, is ‘and the rest of the day to yourself‘.

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Did You Know? Underground and under-fund are the only words in the English language that begin and end with the letters ‘und‘.

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Did You Know? The plural, gender-neutral term for nieces and nephews is ‘niblings‘.

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Did You Know? Oxford Dictionaries name ‘selfie‘ as 2013‘s word of the year.

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Did You Know? The letters in the phrase ‘The Titanic disaster‘ can be rearranged to make ‘Death, it starts in ice.‘

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Did You Know? The ‘@‘ symbol is known as ‘ampersat‘.

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Did You Know? Abience is the strong urge to withdraw or avoid a situation or an object.

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Did You Know? ‘Queueing‘ is the only word with five consecutive vowels.

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Did You Know? ‘Q‘ is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the 50 American states.

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Did You Know? The word ‘facetious‘ contains all 5 vowels in alphabetical order.

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Did You Know? The longest word without any vowels is ‘twyndyllyngs‘, which means ‘twins‘.

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Did You Know? ‘Almost‘ is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

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Did You Know? Technically, the female version of ‘dude‘ is actually ‘dudine‘, not ‘dudette‘.

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Did You Know? Repeating a word over and over until it temporarily lose loses all meaning is called ‘semantic satiation‘.

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Did You Know? The Simpsons are responsible for popularizing the word ‘meh‘.

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Did You Know? A sentence that contains all 26 letters of the alphabet is called a ‘pangram‘.

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Did You Know? The word ‘muggles‘ was used as a slang term for marijuana amongst jazz musicians of the 1920s and 1930s.

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Did You Know? The word ‘mortgage‘ comes from a French word that means ‘pledge to the death‘.

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Did You Know? The alphabets in the words ‘the eyes‘ can be rearranged to create the words ‘they see‘.

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Did You Know? The terms ‘white meat‘ and ‘dark meat‘ originated during the Victorian era when people were too embarrassed to say ‘leg‘ and ‘breast‘.

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Did You Know? The word ‘swims‘ when turned upside down still looks like ‘swims‘.

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Did You Know? Typographical symbols such as ‘@#*&‘, that are used to replace swear words are called ‘Grawlix‘.

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Did You Know? The most used letter in the English alphabet is ‘E‘, and ‘Q‘ is the least used.

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Did You Know? The most common letters in English are R, S, T, L, N, E.

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Did You Know? The word shark is derived from the Latin word meaning ‘sharp teeth‘.

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Did You Know? The longest word in the English language without vowels is ‘Rhythms‘.

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Did You Know? The name Wendy was made up for the book ‘Peter Pan‘.

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Did You Know? ‘Goodbye‘ came from ‘God bye‘ which came from ‘God be with you.‘

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Did You Know? The sentence ‘Are you as bored as I am?‘, can be read backwards and still makes sense.

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Did You Know? A tune that gets stuck in your head is called an ‘earworm‘.

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Did You Know? The medical term for writer‘s cramp is ‘graphospasm‘.

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Did You Know? The medical term for a hangover is ‘Veisalgia‘.

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Did You Know? During the 13th century, the word ‘Girl‘ meant any young person, whether male or female.

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Did You Know? The only letter that doesn‘t appear on the Periodic Table is the letter ‘J‘.

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Did You Know? Yo Mama jokes were invented by Shakespeare.

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Did You Know? Dr.Seuss invented the word ‘nerd‘.

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Did You Know? A ‘moment‘ technically means 90 seconds.

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Did You Know? Dysania is the state of having a hard time waking up and getting out of bed in the morning.

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Did You Know? The word ‘suns‘ still reads the same when it is upside down.

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Did You Know? The word ‘News‘ is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points, North, East, West, and South.

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Did You Know? The sentence ‘The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog‘, uses every letter of the alphabet.

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Did You Know? The opposite of ‘deja vu‘ is called ‘jamais vu‘, which means momentarily not recognizing something you‘ve experienced.

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Did You Know? The number ‘5‘ is pronounced ‘ha‘ in Thai. ‘555‘ is also used as a slang for ‘hahaha‘.

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