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The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.
The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."
The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
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 coat of arms for that reason.
The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat", which means "the king is dead".
Cat's urine glows under ultraviolet lamps.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.
The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."
The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
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 coat of arms for that reason.
The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat", which means "the king is dead".
Cat's urine glows under ultraviolet lamps.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
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