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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"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
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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 word "impossible" dropped in use by 50% over the course of the 20th century
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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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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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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.
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