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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Englishmen drink more tea than any person of any other nation (over twenty times more than Americans)
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Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use today.
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"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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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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Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.
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