13 STUFFS YOU (PROBABLY) DIDN’T KNOW

1. The longest place-name still in use is
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimau
ngahoronukupokaiwenuakitanatahu, a New Zealand hill.

2. Los Angeles’s full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la
Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula” and can be
abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, “L.A.”

3. Donald Duck’s middle name is Fauntleroy.

4. The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have
the same pattern of whiskers.

5. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

6. The male gypsy moth can “smell” the virgin female gypsy moth
from 1.8 miles away.

7. To “testify” was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a
statement made by swearing on their testicles.

8. The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.

9. ‘Stewardesses’ is the longest word that is typed with only the
left hand. (My name can be typed with only the left hand too)

10. “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters
“mt”.

11. There are only four words in the English language which end
in”-dous” tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

12. The dot over the letter ‘i’ is called a tittle.

13. The longest word in the English language, according to the
Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
The only other word with the same amount of letters is
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.