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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 term ‘scumbag‘ originally meant condom.

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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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Did You Know? ‘Love‘ is derived from a Sanskrit word ‘Lubh‘, which means desire.

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Did You Know? The word ‘lethologica‘ is a psychological disorder of not being able to remember the word you were looking for.

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Did You Know? In Ancient Greece, the common slang for a blow job was ‘playing the flute‘.

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Did You Know? The abbreviation Xmas isn‘t irreligious. The letter ‘X‘ is a Greek abbreviation for Christ.

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Did You Know? Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.

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Did You Know? The word ‘nice‘ meant stupid and foolish in the late 13th Century.

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Did You Know? It was said that to ‘testify‘ was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.

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Did You Know? Of all the words in the English language, the word ‘set‘ has the most definitions.

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Did You Know? The word ‘queue‘ is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.

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Did You Know? Crayola is a French word that means ‘Oily chalk‘.

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Did You Know? People who study laughter are called ‘gelotologists‘.

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Did You Know? The word ‘woman‘ is believed to have derived from the Middle English term ‘wyfman‘, broken down simply as the wife (wyf) of man.

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Did You Know? The acronym ‘DNA‘ stands for ‘deoxyribonucleic acid‘.

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Did You Know? Zodiac is an ancient word for ‘Zoo‘, because of the many animals that make up the zodiac.

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Did You Know? The word ‘listen‘ contains the same letters as the word ‘silent‘.

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Did You Know? A jiffy is an actual unit of time, 1/100th of a second.

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Did You Know? The dot over the letter ‘i‘ is called a tittle.

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Did You Know? The practice of collecting of beer mats or coasters is called tegestology.

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Did You Know? Clinomania is the excessive desire to stay in bed. The word had Greek origin and it means ‘obsession of sleeping‘.

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