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The full name of "Los Angeles" is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula.”

A group of flamingos is called a “flamboyance.”

Identical twins don't have the same fingerprints.

"I Am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

In 1849 the first British decimal coin was introduced 1⁄10 of one pound and called the Florin

Confinement in psychiatric asylums was long the primary method for treating mental illness. Families could lock up sick relatives as they wished. Such was the case of sculptor Camille Claudel. Treatments were not particularly kind either. For instance, Queen Elizabeth II’s mother-in-law, Princess Alice of Battenberg, had her ovaries X-rayed to suppress her libido after being declared schizophrenic.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

"Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history.
French and British decks of the 16th century were said to depict Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, the biblical King David and Charlemagne on the king cards, representing the four great empires of Greece, Rome, the Jews and the Franks.

The dot over the lower case letter ‘i’ is called a tittle.

Octopuses have three hearts.
‘Octopuses’ and ‘Octopi’ are both the plural of ‘Octopus’.

The smallest unit of measurement in the universe is the Planck length.
It's the smallest possible size of anything in the known universe at a mere 1.6 x10-35 meter across, which is the equivalent of around a millionth of a billionth of a billionth of a billionth of a centimeter (or a decimal point followed by 34 zeroes and a one).

The saddle-shape of Pringles chips is mathematically known as a hyperbolic paraboloid.
Baur spent two years developing saddle-shaped chips from fried dough, and selected a tubular can as the chips' container.

The two tiny holes in every BIC pen ensure that the air pressure is the same both inside and outside the pen, which helps the ink flow to the tip.

The dark region on the north pole of Pluto’s moon, Charon, is called Mordor.
It is named after the black land called Mordor in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.
Mordor Macula is located at Charon's north pole.

Bluetooth technology was named after a tenth-century King, Harald Bluetooth, King of Denmark and Norway, also known as Harald Bluetooth Gormson or Harald I of Denmark.

Without a telescope, all the stars we see in the night sky with the naked eye are about 4000 light years away.
A light year is the distance travelled by light in one year.
Light travels at 186,000 miles per second.
That means at most you’re seeing stars as they were 4,000 years ago, around when the pyramids were being built in Egypt.

Spiral staircases in medieval castles are running clockwise. This is because all knights used to be right-handed. When the intruding army would climb the stairs they would not be able to use their right hand which was holding the sword because of the difficulties of climbing the stairs. Left-handed knights would have had no troubles, except left-handed people could never become knights because it was assumed that they were descendants of the devil.

Every minute you shed over 30,000 dead skin cells.
That's almost 9 pounds (4 kilograms) of skin cells every year.

If you live to age 70, your heart will have beat around 2.5 billion times!

Talking in your sleep is known as 'Somniloquy'.

The average adult or teen blinks 15 times per minute, so you likely blink about 21,600 times per day.

‘Nominative determinism’ is a term which you give to people whose name describes them, ie William Wordsworth was a poet, Usain Bolt was a fast runner.

Atoms are mainly space.
In fact atoms are 99.9999999999999% empty space.
If you could compress all the atoms inside the human body of every person on Earth so they touched, they would occupy a space the size of a sugar cube.
That truly IS amazing !!!!!!!

The word “strengths” is the longest word in the English language with only one vowel.