1) The Russian word Stalin means "man of steel"?
2) Chernobyl means worm wood?
3) The word trivia comes from the Latin trivium?
4) There are (about) 6703 different languages in the world?
5) The original name of Broadway was the Wiechquaekeck Trail?
6) A filipino man, Jose Rizal, could read and write at age 2?
7) South Korea has a special day to celebrate their Alphabet called Hangul on October 9th?
8) The name FIAT comes from Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino?
9) Benjamin Franklin was named after his uncle Benjamin?
10) The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti?
11) The name PEZ is derived from the German word for peppermint using the first, middle and the last letters?
12) Tintin has been translated into over 58 languages?
13) Irish whiskey is spelt with an 'e' an Scotch whisky is spelt without an 'e'?
14) Many of the state names comes from native American languages. Exampel, the tribe Ute name themselves Utah?
15) Pacman was originally called Puckman?
16) Hurricane names are reused all the time. A new name is added only if a hurricane is very deadly or costly?
17) Mount Everest is named after an Englishman called George Everest?
18) Ikea means Ingvar Kamprad, Elmtaryd, Agunnaryd. Elmtaryd is a farm in the parish of Agunnaryd?
19) Mesopotamia means land between the rivers?
20) The word cool and hip comes from jazz?
21) Korea used to be spelled Corea. It was the Japanese who respelled Corea as Korea?
22) The word for sleep is the same as for dream in Spanish and Italian?
23) There are about 6700 languages in the world?
24) Blogs is now a subject in Jeapordy?
25) The correct spelling for the word Google is really Googol?
26) Eskimos have more than twenty words to describe snow?
27) A village in Mexico is named Honey?
28) The most widely spoken language in the world is Mandarin Chinese (837,000,000) followed by English (370,000,000)?
29) China has more English speaking people than the United States?
30) The word sugar is the only English word starting with SU where the S is pronounced SH?
31) There is only one 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating any letter, uncopyrightable?
32) The first word spoken on the moon was the word "okay"?
33) The number of people to speak English as a second language is about 375 million?
34) Pinocchio is a Italian word for "pine eye"?
35) Before Jets, Jet lag was called "Boat lag"?
36) No word in the English language rhymes with month?
37) Mafia is an old Arabic word that means sanctuary?
38) The 45 letter word PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS is the longest word in English? The word refers to a lung disease caused by breathing in certain particles
39) A coward was originally a boy who took care of cows?
40) The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet?
41) Before the year 1000, the word "she" did not exist in the English language?
42) To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles?
43) The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets?
44) A group of kangaroos is called a mob?
45) Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that make them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt?
46) The South Korean capital Seoul, just means "the capital" in the Korean language?
47) I am, is the shortest complete sentence in the English language?
48) Zorro means fox in Spanish?
49) The phrase "rule of thumb" comes from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb?
50) Typewriter is the longest word that can be created by using only the top row of the keyboard?
51) The most difficult language to learn is Basque, spoken in northwestern Spain and southwestern France?
52) The three words that people misspelled most are achievement, acquire, and accumulate?
53) The word karate means empty hand?
54) The first word in the Declaration of Independence is "When"?
55) The most common name for a goldfish is "Jaws"?
56) The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with?
57) The most common name in the world is Mohammed?
58) There are no words in the English language that rhyme with silver and orange?
59) There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet?
60) The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat". It means that "the King is dead"?
61) The most commonly used word in English conversation is "I"?
62) The word "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"?
63) The term "bonfire" is not a good name to use for a large fire? The origin of the word "bonfire" was from "bonefire," a fire in which bones were burnt?
64) Doberman dogs are named after the German tax collector Ludwig Doberman who bred them as his personnel guard dogs?
65) McDonalds calls frequent buyers of their food "heavy users"?
66) The actual timeunoit for a jiffy is 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy?
67) Cleveland spelled backwards is "DNA level C"?
68) The dot on top of the letter "i" is called a tittle. Tittle is Latin and means that something is very small?
69) In Chinese script, there are more than 40 000 characters?
70) The longest word in the Old Testament is "Malhershalahashbaz"?
71) Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village"?
72) Maine is the only state in the United States whose name is just one syllable?
73) In 1939 Erneset Vincent Wright published a novel called Gadsby. It's a story of Over 50 000 Words without Using the Letter "E"?
74) The stars you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes?
75) Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed refill they used the whistle. "Wet your whistle" is the phrase inspired by this practice?
76) 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?
77) The ampersand & was once a letter of the English alphabet?
78) The "you are here" arrow that you can see in maps is called an "ideo locator"?
79) "Aegilops" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order?
80) Thailand means "land of the free"?
81) In the year of 1880's the word "pants" was considered a dirty word in England?
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