Severe Truths

Factoid: A piece of unverified or inaccurate information that is presented in the press as factual, often as part of a publicity effort, and that is then accepted as true because of frequent repetition.

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is “screeched.” “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt”.
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
The word “set” has more definitions than any other word in the English
language.
“Underground” is the only word in the English language that begins and ends
with the letters “und.”
There are only four words in the English language which end in''-dous” -
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English
Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopic- silicovolcanoconiosis. The only other
word with the same amount of letters is its plural.
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?/o of its size,
“L.A.”
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was
sewn up after surgery.
Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.

The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint – no two lions have the same
pattern of whiskers.
There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words
without rearranging any of its letters, “therein” the, there, he, in, rein,
her, here, ere, therein, herein.
Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood
donors.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog
throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth.
Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and
then swallows the stomach back down again.
Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened
cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.

The male gypsy moth can “smell” the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles
away.
The name for Oz in the “Wizard of Oz” was thought up when the creator, Frank
Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence “Oz.”
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a
chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
To “testify” was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement
made by swearing on their testicles.
The combination “ough” can be pronounced in nine different ways. The
following sentence contains them all “A rough-coated, dough-faced,
thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after
falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.”
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is
uncopyrightable.
Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as
does arsenious, meaning “containing arsenic.”
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of
arms for that reason.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
The word “Checkmate” in chess comes from the Persian phrase “Shah Mat,”
which means “the king is dead”.
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when
the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground
floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

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