"Words that are spelled the same but pronounced with emphasis on different syllables is actually indicative of the part of speech it is. Stress on the first syllable is a noun. Stress on the last syllable is a verb. Examples: CON-tract and con-TRACT. The former is a noun ( sign this contract) whereas the latter is a verb (the muscles contract). Same with record, address, impact, object, and a few others."
"You think your skeleton is inside you, but you’re a brain so you’re inside your skeleton."
"Poison dart froggis obtain their toxin by eating poisonous bugs, like fire ants. When you feed them crickets and such they are perfectly safe to handle"
"Uppercase letters are called that because they could be found in the upper drawer of a printing press, lowercase could be found in the lower case of the printing press."
"The component parts of the word “helicopter” are not “heli” and “copter”. It’s “helico”, meaning “spiral-shaped” like the word “helix” and “pter” meaning “wing” as in “pterodactyl”."
"Hyphenated is non-hyphenated; non-hyphenated is hyphenated."
"A caterpillar doesn’t just grow wings on its wiggly body. Inside its cocoon, it breaks down into a gooey substance, keeping only a few key parts. From this “goo,” its body is rebuilt into a butterfly, complete with wings."
"Etymology fact!
In arabic, when it comes to war, you'd have military ranks like Amir al-Bahr, which would roughly translate to "ruler of the sea". The term was taken by latin, shortened to "Amir al", and made its way to western languages, as *admiral*.
Which means that admiral essentially means "Lord of the-"."
"The term "bug" in computing has been around a long time. The term was not commonly used until an actual bug landed on an electrical switch causing the computer to malfunction.(Returning a zero when it was supposed to be a 1). The term bug grew in popularity afterwards and landed us where we are today.
When we find a bug in software we apply a "patch"...
This comes from old cardex/punch card systems. If a punch card was punched in the wrong spot, you could fix it by applying a patch to the hole."
"The color blue is extremely rare in nature We only think it's common because the sky and ocean is blue but other than that it's actually pretty rare."
"Rollercoasters are built to shake! I’ve seen so many people decide to not get on because of the sway, but it’s important! If the support beams and tracks didn’t shake, they’d simply snap with all the force from the coaster cars roaring over them."
"The word “queue” is just a "Q" followed by four silent letters."
"The thing between hard and soft is firm. The thing between hardware and software is called..."
"The word "set" holds the record for having the most definitions of any single word."
"Your skin doesn't have a particular sense organ to let you know if it's wet or not."
"Plumbing comes from the root Latin word of Plumbum which means lead and is the reason it's Pb on the Periodic table, because the Romans made water pipes out of lead—as an aside they knew it was a problem for brains, but they just didn't care as it mostly affected the poors."
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