Weird Fact Café

Language Weird Facts

58

There Is a Word for Throwing Windows

70

Japanese Has Three Writing Systems

13

Oxford Comma Caused Legal Dispute

52

The Last Letter Added to English Alphabet Was J

18

The Word Dreamt Is Only English Word Ending in MT

25

Shakespeare Invented Over 1,700 Words

38

The Word 'Set' Has Over 430 Definitions

31

English Used to Have Gendered Nouns

33

The Shortest Complete Sentence Is 'Go'

82

Typewriter Is Longest Word on One Row

23

The Word Lethologica Describes Forgetting Words

48

Oxford Dictionary Took 70 Years

79

The Hawaiian Alphabet Has Only 13 Letters

68

A Flock of Crows Is Called a Murder for a Reason

54

The First Oranges Weren't Orange