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  1. Did you know 'Topolino' is the name for Mickey Mouse Italy
  2. Did you know dreamt is the only word that ends in mt
  3. Did you know the first letters of the months July through to November spell JASON
  4. Did you know spiders are arachnids and not insects
  5. Did you know stewardesses is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand
  6. Did you know the Internet was originally called ARPANet (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) designed by the US department of defense
  7. Did you know African Grey Parrots have vocabularies of over 200 words
  8. Did you know 1 googol is the number 1 followed by 100 zeros
  9. Did you know the word laser stands for 'Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation'
  10. Did you know the Australian aircraft carrier QANTAS stands for Queensland And Northern Territories Aerial Service
  11. Did you know there are only 4 words in the English language which end in 'dous' (they are: hazardous, horrendous, stupendous and tremendous)
  12. Did you know the oldest word in the English language is 'town'
  13. Did you know 'Bookkeeper' and 'bookkeeping' are the only 2 words in the English language with three consecutive double letters
  14. Did you know the word 'Strengths' is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel
  15. Did you know a group of frogs is called an army
  16. Did you know a group of rhinos is called a crash
  17. Did you know a group of kangaroos is called a mob
  18. Did you know a group of whales is called a pod
  19. Did you know a group of geese is called a gaggle
  20. Did you know a group of owls is called a parliament
  21. Did you know the dot on top of the letter 'i' is called a tittle
  22. Did you know the past tense for the English word 'dare' is 'durst'
  23. Did you know the word 'uncopyrightable' is the is the only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating any letter
  24. Did you know the word 'testify' derived from a time when men were required to swear on their testicles
  25. Did you know the word typewriter is the longest word that can be typed using only the top row of a keyboard
  26. Did you know that you can spell the word 'level' the same backwards
  27. Did you know VHS stands for Video Home System
  28. Did you know the WD in WD-40 stands for Water Displacer
  29. Did you know the word racecar can be spelled the same way backwards
  30. Did you know the word 'underground is the only word that begins and ends with the letters 'und'
  31. Did you know the word 'almost' is the longest word spelt alphabetically
  32. Did you know the coloured part of your eye is called the iris
  33. Did you know the meaning of 'Blue Chip' comes from blue casino chips which have a high value
  34. Did you know the term 'disc jockey' was first used in 1937
  35. Did you know 1 gigayear = 1,000,000,000,000 years
  36. Did you know Rio de Janeiro translates to river of January
  37. Did you know the word old English word 'juke' meaning dancing lends its name to the juke box
  38. Did you know EMI awards stands for 'Electrical and Musical Instruments'
  39. Did you know a Sphygmomanometer measures blood pressure
  40. Did you know a group of whales is called a pod
  41. Did you know a female ferret is called a jill
  42. Did you know the side of a hammer is called a cheek
  43. Did you know Pinocchio is Italian for 'pine head'
  44. Did you know the longest word that can be typed using only our right hand is 'lollipop'
  45. Did you know 1 out of every 8 letters written is an e
  46. Did you know the word 'lethologica' describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want
  47. Did you know Shakespeare invented the words 'assassination' and 'bump'
  48. Did you know The sixth sick sheik`s sixth sheep`s sick' is said to be the toughest tongue twister
  49. Did you know the longest one syllable word in the English language is 'screeched'
  50. Did you know the atomic symbol for iron is Fe (the original name for iron was Ferric)
  51. Did you know 'underground' is the only word that begins and ends with the letters 'und'
  52. Did you know the ball on top of a flag pole is called the truck
  53. Did you know the opposite of a 'vacuum' is a 'plenum'
  54. Did you know M*A*S*H stood for 'Mobile Army Surgical Hospital'
  55. Did you know 'fan' is short for 'fanatic'
  56. Did you know clinophobia is the fear of going to bed
  57. Did you know the number 4 is the only number that has the same number of letters in it
  58. Did you know you can't trademark surnames
  59. Did you know the 'you are here' arrow on maps is called an ideo locator
  60. Did you know a group of foxes is called a skulk
  61. Did you know a connected bunch of bananas is called a hand and individual bananas are called fingers
  62. Did you know arachibutyrophobia is fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth
  63. Did you know a 15th anniversary is called a quindecennial
  64. Did you know a nanosecond is one billionth of a second
  65. Did you know brontology is the study of thunder
  66. Did you know the expression to 'knuckle down' originated from playing marbles (players used to put their knuckles to the ground for their best shots)
  67. Did you know 'orology' is the study of mountains
  68. Did you know the word denim comes from 'de Nimes' or from Nimes which is a town in France
  69. Did you know the vocabulary of the average person is between 5,000 to 6,000 words
  70. Did you know DNA stands for Deoxyribonucleicacid
  71. Did you know the study of insects is called entomology
  72. Did you know the word 'karate' means 'empty hand'
  73. Did you know the word fortnight is a contraction of the 2 words 'fourteen nights'
  74. Did you know the word 'almost' is the longest in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order
  75. Did you know a pip is one of the spots on die or domino
  76. Did you know the most commonly used word in English conversation is 'I'
  77. Did you know the word 'taxi' is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, and Portuguese
  78. Did you know ablutophobia is the fear of bathing
  79. Did you know achluophobiais the fear of the dark
  80. Did you know acrophobia is the fear of heights
  81. Did you know agoraphobia is the fear of wide open spaces
  82. Did you know aichmophobia is the fear of needles and pointed objects
  83. Did you know akousticophobia is the fear of noises
  84. Did you know amathophobia is the fear of dust
  85. Did you know atychiphobia is the fear of failure
  86. Did you know brontophobia is the fear of thunderstorms
  87. Did you know catoptrophobia is the fear of mirrors
  88. Did you know dendrophobia is the fear of trees
  89. Did you know gatophobia is the fear of cats
  90. Did you know heliophobia is the fear of sunlight
  91. Did you know helminthophobia is the fear of worms
  92. Did you know herpetophobia is the fear of reptiles
  93. Did you know hippophobia is the fear of horses
  94. Did you know iatrophobia is the fear of doctors
  95. Did you know ichthyophobia is the fear of fish
  96. Did you know melissophobia is the fear of bees
  97. Did you know melophobia is the fear of music
  98. Did you know myrmecophobia is the fear of ants
  99. Did you know ombrophobia is the fear of rain
  100. Did you know ornithophobia is the fear of birds
  101. Did you know siderodromophobia is the fear of trains
  102. Did you know tachophobia is the fear of speed
  103. Did you know zoophobia is the fear of animals
  104. Did you know sesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words
  105. Did you know triscadecaphobia is the fear of the number 13
  106. Did you know the little hole in some sinks that lets the water drain out instead of flowing is called a 'porcelator'


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