These were all slang terms for sex in the 16th through 19th centuries.

When you can’t sleep on your first night in a new place, your brain is trying to protect you.

Strengths is the longest word in the English language with only one vowel.

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.

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

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.