A Starfish’s arm is called a radius
Softheartedness is an anagram of ‘sheds tears often’
Conversation is an anagram of ‘voices rant on’
Apostrophe means ‘turning away’ in Greek
Half of a computer byte is called a nibble
The ten words – the, and, I, to, of, a, you, my, in and that all account for a fifth of everything William Shakespeare wrote
The welsh word for carrots is moron
Africa is thought to derive from the Phoenician word for ‘dust’
The word run has 645 meanings in the Oxford English Dictionary
A monkey’s wedding is a period of simultaneous sunshine and rain
Phoenix, Arizona was once called Pumpkinville
Pumpernickel means ‘farting goblin’
Ludicris literally means ‘playing a game’. It is derived form the same root as Ludo.
A group of lapwings is called a desert
The earliest record of a knock knock joke dates from 1934
Knock Knock
Who’s There?
Rufus
Rufus who?
Rufus, the most important part of your house!
Koalas were once known as monkey-bears
The Atlantic Ocean is named after the Atlas Mountain in Morocco
A group of eagles is called a convocation
South America is the only continent with all five vowels in its name
Ecuador is the Spanish word for ‘equator’ – and the county lies directly on the equator
The word ‘therein’ contains nine more words inside it: there, the, he, her, here, herein, ere, rein and in
An armoury is a group of aardvarks
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