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921/ The National Anthem of
Greece has 158 verses.
922/ Steely Dan got their
name from a sexual device depicted in the book 'The Naked
Lunch'.
923/ The only Dutch word to
contain eight consecutive consonants is 'angstschreeuw'.
924/ The second longest word
in the English language is 'antidisestablishmentarianism'.
925/ When two words are combined
to form a single word eg motor + hotel = motel, breakfast
+ lunch = brunch - the new word is called a portmanteau.
926/ Dr Samuel A. Mudd was
the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes
Booth...and whose shame created the expression for ignominy,
'His name is Mudd'.
927/ The number of the trash
compactor in 'Star Wars' is 3263827.
928/ 'Underground' is the
only word in the English language that begins and ends with
the letters 'und'.
929/ The longest word in the
English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary,
is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanooconiosis. The only
other word with the same amount of letters, ispneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioises
is plural.
930/ The longest place name
still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaung
ahoronukupokaiwhenuakitamatahu. It is the name of a hill in
New Zealand.
931/ Ingrowing toenails are
hereditary.
932/ Every night, wasps bite
into the stem of a plant, lock their mandibles (jaws) into
position, stretch out at right angles to the stem and with
legs dangling, fall asleep.
933/ Bees have five eyes.
There are 3 small eyes on the top of a bee's head and 2 larger
ones in front.
934/ Barbie's measurements
if she were life size - 39-23-33
935/ All of the clocks in
Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4.20
936/ Crocodiles and alligators
are surpriseingly fast on land. Although they are rapid, they
are not agile. So if you ever find yourself chased by one,
run in a zigzag line. You'll lose him or her every time.
937/ According to tests made
at the Institute for the Study of Animal Problems in Washington.
Dogs and cats, like people are either right or left handed
- that is, they favour either their right or left paws.
938/ Most elephants weigh
less than the tongue of a blue whale.
939/ A group of kangeroos
is called a mob.
940/ Stalin was only five
feet, four inches tall.
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