The word “goodbye” comes from an Old English phrase meaning “God be with you”.

The word “nerd” was invented by Dr. Seuss. 

 “Go!” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

“Typewriter” is the longest word you can type using only the letters on one row of the keyboard.

Sleeping through summer is called “estivation”.

About 1,000 words are added to the dictionary each year. 

 A group of hippos is referred to as a “bloat”. Other terms for a group of hippos are a herd, thunder or sea. 

The infinity sign is called a lemniscate.

“Schoolmaster” is an anagram of “the classroom”.

Remnants of liquor left in the bottom of a glass are referred to as the “heeltap.” When a toast is ended with “and no heel-taps!” it means to drain every last drop. 

The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle.

There are over 150 different dialects of English spoken throughout the world, 30 in the U.S. alone. 

“Lol” was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2011. 

“White meat” originally referred to dairy products such as milk, butter and cheese. 

The world record for most T-shirts worn at once is 260. 

The lighter was invented three years before the match.

A “jiffy” is about one trillionth of a second.

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Basenji dogs are the only breed that doesn’t bark… they sort of yodel.

The placement of a donkey’s eyes in its head allows them to see all four feet at all times.

Animals that lay eggs don’t have belly buttons.

Due to a genetic defect, cats can’t taste sweet things.

An average of 3.6 cans of SPAM are consumed each second.

In the 1830s, ketchup was used as medicine to treat such ailments as diarrhea, indigestion and jaundice.

A banana is considered a berry.

The combined work of the entire lives of 12 bees accumulates to one single teaspoon of honey.

The largest scrambled eggs ever made weighed 6,860.8 pounds.

In 2021,Morgan Niquet, François Robin and Julien Serri, set the record for the most varieties of cheeses on a pizza. They used 834 cheeses!

Pistachios, cashews and almonds are closer to fruits than nuts. They are classified as “drupes” which are fruits that are fleshy on the outside and contain a shell covering a seed on the inside.

Sandwiches were created because the Earl of Sandwich, John Montagu, did not want to put his cards down while gambling to eat.

The average person has four to six dreams a night.

Your fingernails grow faster on your dominant hand.

The opposite sides of a die will always add up to seven.

A cubic inch of human bone can bear the weight of five standard pickup trucks.

Etch-a-Sketch sales increased after the Toy Story movie.

Women blink almost twice as much as men.

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Scallops have teeth and eyes up to 200.

Due to ocean tides and earthquakes days get longer by 1.7 milliseconds each century.

It takes between 813 and 982 rubber bands to crush a human skull.

The position your tongue sits in in your mouth usually depends on what your first language is.

The longest English word is 189,819 letters long and it would take three and a half hours to say out loud.

If you lose the little cup to a Nyquil or Zzzquil bottle, to achieve a 30 mL dose you require 4 capfuls filled to the inside rim.

The largest piece of fossilised dinosaur poo discovered is over 30cm long and over two litres in volume.

There’s no such thing as zero-calorie foods. Even low-calorie foods, such as celery and watercress, contain more energy than the body needs to process them. 

All the world’s bacteria stacked on top of each other would stretch for 10 billion light-years. 

The world’s oldest dog lived to 29.5 years old.

The world’s oldest cat lived to 38 years and three days old.

Wind turbines kill between 10,000 and 100,000 birds each year in the UK.

Snails have teeth. Between 1,000 and 12,000 teeth, to be precise.

A study in 2016 purports that among men, a larger signature correlates with higher social bravado and, among women, a bigger signature correlates with narcissistic traits.

One in 18 people have a third nipple. 

Deaf people are known to use sign language in their sleep.

Hippos don’t swim, they sink to the bottom of the riverbed and gallop in slow motion.

In 2013, a woman required surgery to remove feces build up as she was constipated for 45 days.

Studies have shown that even in emergencies, fish form orderly queues in order to not clog things up.

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