Here are about 16 facts you probably didn't know about.
September 1752 had only 19 days, 11 days were removed because England migrated from using the Roman calendar to the Gregorian calendar.
There is a town called NOTHING in Arizona. The town was deserted by it's citizens because of reasons unknown.
Did you know that a single stick of spaghetti is called Spaghetto.
The place with the longest name is located in New Zealand. Its name is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauot
amateaturipukakapikimaugahoron
ukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu.
The dot placed above the letter 'i' and 'j' is called Tittle.
Did you know that Dreamt is the only word that ends it 'mt'.
Guess you haven't noticed that every letter 'c' in the word 'pacific ocean' is pronounced differently. You can pronounce it to confirm.
Ethiopia has 13 months and currently in the year 2012 which means that they are about 8 years lagging behind other countries.
Oxymoron is a figure of speech in which two terms appear to contradict each other example doing nothing, but do you know that the word 'oxymoron' is also an example of oxymoron. 'Oxy' means 'sharp' while 'moron'means 'dull'.
There is a book published which has 50,000 but doesn't have the letter 'E' in it.
'Q' is the only letter that doesn't appear in any US state name.
Did you know that there is no butter in the buttermilk?. Then how did it get it's name.
The word 'Strenghts' is the longest English with only 1 vowel and 8 consonants.
Did you know that Albert Einstein's brain was stolen when he died.
Owls are the only birds that can see the colour blue.
Do you know that the most difficult thing for one to see in a dream is a working clock.
As we all know, learning is a continuous process, one cannot have knowledge of everything in one day. There are things you know which i probably don't know. I urge you to drop some of the interesting and well researched facts that you know that isn't written in this post in the comment section.

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