A jumble of symbols in place of a curse word is called a Grawlix. More

Shakespeare invented more than 1,700 words including moonbeam, gossip, laughable, eyeball, advertising, assassination, fashionable, champion, bedroom, blanket, excitement and zany. More

According to director David Fincher, in the movie Fight Club, there is a Starbucks cup in every scene. More

The 1939 Gadsby novel is the longest book ever written that doesn’t contain the letter e. More

Pakistan is an acronym. The country’s name is based on the Muslim territories of Northern India in the 1930s: Punjab, Afghan, Kashmir, Sind and BalochisTAN, with an ‘I’ to make it easier to pronounce. More

All people with blue eyes can be traced back to one person who lived near the Black Sea less than 10,000 years ago. More

100 years ago, in early 1920, Walt Disney began working at the Kansas City Slide Company, a business that specialized in movie advertising, where he became fascinated with the growing innovations in film arts. More

Percentages are reversible. 8% of 25 is the same as 25% of 8, which is a lot easier to do in your head. That’s because ‘of’ means ‘to multiply’ and the order of multiplication doesn’t matter. More