TrIViAs!!!!!

English trivia

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

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     The longest word in the English language, according to the
Oxford English Dictionary,
is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

     The only other word with the same amount of letters is
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural

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

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

Math trivia

Q: What Greek math whiz noticed that the morning star and evening star were one and the same, in 530 B.C.?
A: Pythagoras.

Q: What's a flat image that can be displayed in three dimensions?
A: A hologram.

Q: How many equal sides does an icosahedron have?
A:  Twenty.

Q: What two letters are both symbols for 1,000?
A: K and M.

Q: What number, a one followed by 100 zeros, was first used by nine-year-old Milton Sirotta in 1940?
A: Googol.

Q:  What century did mathematicians first use plus and minus signs?
A: The sixteenth.

Science trivia

·         Chalk is made of trillions of microscopic skeleton fossils of plankton (a tiny sea creature

·         A bucket full of water contains more atoms than there are bucketfuls of water in the Atlantic Ocean.

·         Dynamite contains peanuts as an ingredient.

·         Gallium is a metal which melts on palm of the hand, due to its low melting point (29.76 °C).

·         Twenty percent of Earth's oxygen is produced by the Amazon forest.

·         The burning sensation we get from chilli peppers is because of a chemical called Capsaicin.

·         Each time lightning strikes, some Ozone gas is produced, thus strengthening the Ozone Layer in the Earth's atmosphere.

·         One inch (2.5cm) of rain is equal to 10 inches (25cm) of snow.

·         Mosquitoes like the scent of estrogen, hence, women get bitten by mosquitoes more often than men do.

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