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What is the only English word pronounced the same after removing the last four letters?
Queue
What do beetles, wasps and worms taste like?
Apples, pine nuts and fried bacon
What word has the most definitions in the English language?
Set
What is the longest English word without a vowel?
Rhythm
In 1386, what animal was executed in public by hanging for the murder of a child?
Pig
In what country is it illegal to have a pet dog?
Iceland
How many times does your heart beat a day?
Over 100,000
In the university of London, who is present at all important meetings?
The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham.
On average who lives longer, right-handed people or left-handed people?
Right-handed people by 9 years.
When was the first known transfusion of blood?
- Jean-Baptiste transfused two pints of blood from a sheep into a young man.
How many recorded ways are there to spell Shakespeare?
80
When did the U.S. Congress prohibit dueling in the District of Columbia
20th February 1839
how many seconds in a year
31,536,000
