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Fun Fact of the Day

Posted on November 5, 2020 by Sonoran Conservative
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The punctuation mark ?! is called an interrobang.

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Fun Fact of the Day

Posted on September 8, 2020 by Sonoran Conservative
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A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time.

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Fun Fact of the Day

Posted on September 2, 2020 by Sonoran Conservative
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The glow around the moon is called a “broch.”

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Fun Fact of the Day

Posted on August 29, 2020 by Sonoran Conservative
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The space between your eyebrows is called the glabella.

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Fun Fact of the Day

Posted on August 4, 2020 by Sonoran Conservative
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The word “muscle” comes from a Latin term meaning “little mouse.”

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Fun Fact of the Day

Posted on July 28, 2020 by Sonoran Conservative
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The word aquarium means “watering place for cattle” in Latin

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Fun Fact of the Day

Posted on December 2, 2019 by Sonoran Conservative
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There are 24 different dialects of English in the US.

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Fun Fact of the Day

Posted on August 7, 2019 by Sonoran Conservative
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The average active vocabulary of an adult English speaker is of around 20,000 words.

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Fun Fact of the Day

Posted on February 23, 2019 by Sonoran Conservative
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The names of the English rivers Avon, Axe, Esk, Exe and Ouse all mean ‘river’ or ‘water’ in various ancient languages.

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Fun Fact of the Day

Posted on November 18, 2018 by Sonoran Conservative
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Quantophrenia is an obsessive reliance on statistics.

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