Weird Fact Café

Language Weird Facts

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Oxford Dictionary Adds 1,000 Words Yearly

41

World's Shortest Complete Sentence

81

Color Orange Named After Fruit

10

English Has Most Words Globally

12

Shakespeare Invented Common Words

68

Typewriter Is Longest Top-Row Word

40

Sanskrit Is Programming-Friendly Language

13

The Canary Islands Are Named After Dogs Not Birds

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The Longest English Word Without Repeating Letters Has 15 Letters

54

The Word Salary Comes from Salt

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There Is a Word for the Smell of Rain on Dry Earth

83

A Group of Crows Is Called a Murder

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The Longest Place Name Has 85 Letters

9

The Longest Word Without a Vowel Is Seven Letters Long

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One-Third of the World's Languages Are Spoken in Africa