Random English Facts

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    Englishmen drink more tea than any person of any other nation (over twenty times more than Americans)
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    The P.S. at the end of a letter stands for Post Script.
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    The technical term for a cat’s hairball is a “bezoar.”
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    English sailors were referred to as "limeys" because sailors added lime juice to their diet to combat scurvy.
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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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    "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
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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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