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    A group of ferrets is called a business.
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    The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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    Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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    Pteronophobia
    Pteronophobia
    The fear of being tickled by feathers is known as Pteronophobia.
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    There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:
    tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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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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    The technical term for a cat’s hairball is a “bezoar.”
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    The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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