Rucci (
Learning_English)
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The first word spoken on the moon was "okay."
* Seoul, the South Korean capital, just means "the capital" in the Korean language
* The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with
* Panspermia is the idea that life on Earth originated on another planet.
* An infestation of head lice is called pediculosis.
* The medical name for the part of the brain associated with teenage sulking is "superior temporal sulcus".
* Involuntary bad language, a symptom affecting about one in 10 people with Tourette's syndrome, is called "coprolalia".
* The word "time" is the most common noun in the English language.
* The clitoris derives its name from the ancient Greek word kleitoris, meaning "little hill".
* Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobiacs is the term for people who fear the number 666.
* Publishers have coined the term "Brownsploitation" for the rash of books that have sprung up in the wake of Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code blockbuster.
* The "you are here" arrow on maps is called an ideo locator
* The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want
* In English, "four" is the only digit that has the same number of letters as its value
* Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States
* The word "trivia" comes from the Latin "trivium" which is the place where three roads meet, a public square. People would gather and talk about all sorts of matters, most of which were trivial
* TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters only one row of the keyboard
* "Speak of the Devil" is short for "Speak of the Devil and he shall come". It was believed that if you spoke about the Devil it would attract his attention. That's why when you're talking about someone and they show up people say "Speak of the Devil"
* The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means, "the King is dead"
* The sentence
"the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language
* The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is
uncopyrightable.
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Rucci (
Learning_English)
* The first word spoken on the moon was "okay."
