QUOTE OF THE DAY….!!
- Peter Drucker
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The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
The elephant is the only mammal that can't
jump!
"Dreamt" is the only
English word that ends in the letters "mt".
The word "checkmate" in chess comes from
the Persian phrase "Shah-Mat," which means the king is dead.
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has
both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one
front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle;
if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural
causes.
Hummingbirds are the only birds
that can fly backwards.
The word “OK” was coined by Charles
Gordon Greene in 1839 in the “Boston Morning Post.” He used OK as a joking
abbreviation for “Oll Korrect” in a satirical article about grammar. The
editorial joke went viral, bringing the word into common usage.
The word vaccine comes from the
Latin word "vacca," which means cow. This name was chosen because
the first vaccination was derived from cowpox which was given to a boy.
The word “Rupee” for Indian
currency is derived from the Sanskrit word Rupya which means “wrought sliver.”
The word for Indonesian currency “Rupiah” also has the same origin.
The full name of the
Titanic ship is R.M.S. Titanic, which stands for Royal Mail Steamship.
The shortest
English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is “feedback.”
Another word for hiccups is "singultus."
Of all the words in the English language, the word
'set' has the most definitions!
Dolphins sleep with
one eye open.
The longest one-syllable word in the English
language is "screeched."
