A speleologist studies caves.<\/p>\n
Anagrams amused the ancient Greeks, Romans and Hebrews, and were popular during the Middle Ages.<\/p>\n
“Aromatherapy” is a term coined by French chemist Ren\u00e9 Maurice Gattefoss\u00e9 in the 1920’s to describe the practice of using essential oils taken from plants, flowers, roots, seeds, etc., in healing.<\/p>\n
Ballistics is the science that deals with the motion of projectiles.<\/p>\n
Cannibalism, eating human flesh, is also called anthropophagy.<\/p>\n
DNA stands for Deoxyribonucleicacid.<\/p>\n
“Rhythms” is the longest English word without the normal vowels, a, e, i, o, or u.<\/p>\n
The side of a hammer is a cheek.<\/p>\n
The study of insects is called entomology.<\/p>\n
The study of word origins is called etymology.<\/p>\n
The symbol on the “pound” key (#) is called an octothorpe.<\/p>\n
The white part of your fingernail is called the lunula.<\/p>\n
The word “karate” means “empty hand.”<\/p>\n
The word “samba” means “to rub navels together.”<\/p>\n
The world’s largest alphabet is Cambodian, with 74 letters.<\/p>\n
The ZIP in Zip-code stands for “Zoning Improvement Plan.”<\/p>\n
A “Blue Moon” is the second full moon in a calendar month (it is rarely blue).<\/p>\n
A bibliophile is a collector of rare books. A bibliopole is a seller of rare books.<\/p>\n
A ghost writer pens an anonymous book.<\/p>\n
A poem written to celebrate a wedding is called an epithalamium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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