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921/ The National Anthem of Greece has 158 verses.

922/ Steely Dan got their name from a sexual device depicted in the book 'The Naked Lunch'.

923/ The only Dutch word to contain eight consecutive consonants is 'angstschreeuw'.

924/ The second longest word in the English language is 'antidisestablishmentarianism'.

925/ When two words are combined to form a single word eg motor + hotel = motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch - the new word is called a portmanteau.

926/ Dr Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth...and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, 'His name is Mudd'.

927/ The number of the trash compactor in 'Star Wars' is 3263827.

928/ 'Underground' is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters 'und'.

929/ The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanooconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters, ispneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioises is plural.

930/ The longest place name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaung
ahoronukupokaiwhenuakitamatahu. It is the name of a hill in New Zealand.

931/ Ingrowing toenails are hereditary.

932/ Every night, wasps bite into the stem of a plant, lock their mandibles (jaws) into position, stretch out at right angles to the stem and with legs dangling, fall asleep.

933/ Bees have five eyes. There are 3 small eyes on the top of a bee's head and 2 larger ones in front.

934/ Barbie's measurements if she were life size - 39-23-33

935/ All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4.20

936/ Crocodiles and alligators are surpriseingly fast on land. Although they are rapid, they are not agile. So if you ever find yourself chased by one, run in a zigzag line. You'll lose him or her every time.

937/ According to tests made at the Institute for the Study of Animal Problems in Washington. Dogs and cats, like people are either right or left handed - that is, they favour either their right or left paws.

938/ Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale.

939/ A group of kangeroos is called a mob.

940/ Stalin was only five feet, four inches tall.

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