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WAS IT A CAR OR A CAT I SAW.. 'WASITACARORACATISAW'.. This is the only English sentence which even if we read in reverse, it'll give the same sentence.
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"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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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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'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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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 word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
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Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
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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 dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
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In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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More people in China speak English than in the United States.
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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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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
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