'⸮' 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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The P.S. at the end of a letter stands for Post Script.
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The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start, excluding the North and South infront of AmericA.
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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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The word "impossible" dropped in use by 50% over the course of the 20th century
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The equivalents of the English saying "That's Greek to me" are "This appears to be Spanish" (German), "This is Chinese to me" (Dutch), "It's German to me" (Philippines), "It's Hebrew" (Finnish), "It's Chinese to me" (Hebrew), "Sounds like Mars language/These are chicken intestines" (China).
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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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