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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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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Iceland has been so culturally isolated through history since the Vikings, that compared to other Scandinavian counties, people who speak Icelandic can still read the old Norsk sagas.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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The P.S. at the end of a letter stands for Post Script.
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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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Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
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