If you mouth the word "colorful" to someone, it looks like you are saying "I love you".
634
"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
297
Before the English speaking world was exposed to the fruit, the color orange was referred to as “geoluhread” which is Old English for red-yellow.
7
In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
28
Englishmen drink more tea than any person of any other nation (over twenty times more than Americans)
123
"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
384
'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
17