Although these facts have not been verified, they are still funny. Unfortunately, the identity of the kind soul who sent them our way has been lost. So, thank you…whoever you were.

Stuff You Really Should Know

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is “screeched.”

“Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt”.

Almonds are members of the peach family.

The symbol on the “pound” key (#) is called an octothorpe.

The dot over the letter ‘i’ is called a tittle.

Ingrown toenails are hereditary.

The word “set” has more definitions than any other word in the English language.

“Underground” is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters “und.”

The longest place-name still in use is for a hill in New Zealand: Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwenuakitnatahu

Alfred Hitchcock didn’t have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.

Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.

Donald Duck’s middle name is Fauntleroy.

The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint – no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.

There is a seven-letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, “therein”: the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.

John Larroquette of “Night Court” and “The John Larroquette Show”, was the narrator of “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.”

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.

The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.

To “testify” was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning “containing arsenic.”

Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian seal for that reason.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.