The word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.
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There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.
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The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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