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

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

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

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

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.