'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
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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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Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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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 six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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The technical term for a cat’s hairball is a “bezoar.”
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