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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Salvador Dalí would often get out of paying for drinks and meals by drawing on the checks, making them priceless works of art.

In 2013, Chinese scientists were able to grow a human tooth from scratch using stem cells taken from urine.

Spiked and studded dog collars come from the days of the Ancient Greeks, who gave their sheep-dogs sharply spiked collars to protect their necks from wolves.

One study has shown that a male zebra finch is less likely to try and court a female zebra finch if he didn’t form any social friendships with female zebra finches when younger.

The only state flag with the Union Jack on it? Hawaii!

Studies have shown that Surgeons who play video games for at least 3 hours a week perform 27% faster and make 37% fewer errors.

The word “quarantine” comes from the Venetian dialect of Italian and the words “quaranta giorni,” meaning “forty days.” Why? Because when it was discovered that ships were infested with plagued rats, they were made to sit at anchor outside Venice’s city walls for forty days before coming ashore.

Approximately 1,000,000 dogs in the U.S. are named as the heirs of their owners’ wills. This makes me happy.

When written down, the word ‘almost’ is the longest word in the English language to have all of its letters in alphabetical order.

A study was conducted that showed customers in a bookstore were 3.48 times more likely to peruse romantic books if the store smelt like chocolate and 5.93 times more likely to buy them! That’d work on me, anyway.

Sonic the Hedgehog is in the Guinness Book of Records for being the fasted video game character ever.

In 1908, Thomas Sullivan invented the tea bag by accident. He put them in silk bags to divide the teas for sampling. People were confused and so they dipped them in hot water. Thomas was immediately swamped with orders for these bags.

The word “oxymoron” is itself an oxymoron. This is because it derives from Ancient Greek, where “oxy” means “sharp” and “moros” means “stupid.”

Bruno Mars’s birth name is Peter Gene Bayot Hernandez.

2013 was the first year since 1987 to feature four different numbers.

The term ‘deadline’ comes from the American Civil War. Prisoners would have lines drawn around them in the dirt, and if they crossed this line, then they would be executed by their guards.

The term ‘deadline’ comes from the American Civil War. Prisoners would have lines drawn around them in the dirt, and if they crossed this line, then they would be executed by their guards.

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