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Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.
A Holstein's spots are like a fingerprint or snowflake. No two cows have exactly the same pattern of spots.
"Rhythms" is the longest English word without the normal vowels, a, e, i, o, or u.
The largest body of fresh water in the world is Lake Superior.
The ZIP in Zip-code stands for "Zoning Improvement Plan."
The idiom "pillar of salt" means to have a stroke, or to become paralyzed and dead.
There are roughly 6,500 spoken languages in the world today. However, about 2,000 of those languages have fewer than 1,000 speakers. The most widely spoken language in the world is Mandarin Chinese. There are 885,000,000 people in China that speak that language.
The last person hanged in the US for being a pirate was Capt. Nathaniel Gordon, in New York City on March 8, 1862. Gordon had been smuggling slaves into the US.
A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.
The phrase "sleep tight" originated when mattresses were set upon ropes woven through the bed frame. To remedy sagging ropes, one would use a bed key to tighten the rope.
Disney World in Orlando, Florida covers 30,500 acres (46 square miles), making it twice the size of the island of Manhattan, New York.
Europe has no deserts - it is the only continent without one.
The word "assassination" was invented by Shakespeare.
The last thing to happen is the ultimate. The next-to-last is the penultimate, and the second-to-last is the antepenultimate.
A Cornish game hen is really a young chicken, usually 5 to 6 weeks of age, that weighs no more than 2 pounds.
Mexico City is the oldest capital city in the Americas.
The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.
The white part of your fingernail is called the lunula.
A 1,200-pound horse eats about seven times it's own weight each year.
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