A “butt” was a Medieval unit of measure for wine. Technically, a 'buttload' of wine is about 475 liters, or 126 gallons.
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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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The words ‘racecar,’ ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether
they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
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Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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A legend suggests that clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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The word 'set' has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
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