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- Did you know a connected bunch of bananas is called a hand and individual bananas are called fingers
- Did you know arachibutyrophobia is fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth
- Did you know a 15th anniversary is called a quindecennial
- Did you know a nanosecond is one billionth of a second
- Did you know brontology is the study of thunder
- Did you know the expression to 'knuckle down' originated from playing marbles (players used to put their knuckles to the ground for their best shots)
- Did you know 'orology' is the study of mountains
- Did you know the word denim comes from 'de Nimes' or from Nimes which is a town in France
- Did you know the vocabulary of the average person is between 5,000 to 6,000 words
- Did you know DNA stands for Deoxyribonucleicacid
- Did you know the study of insects is called entomology
- Did you know the word 'karate' means 'empty hand'
- Did you know the word fortnight is a contraction of the 2 words 'fourteen nights'
- Did you know the word 'almost' is the longest in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order
- Did you know a pip is one of the spots on die or domino
- Did you know the most commonly used word in English conversation is 'I'
- Did you know the word 'taxi' is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, and Portuguese
- Did you know ablutophobia is the fear of bathing
- Did you know achluophobiais the fear of the dark
- Did you know acrophobia is the fear of heights