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Common English Words That Have Been Abbreviated to Convey Larger Phrases

March 14, 2017

Brick Burger

Philippines Restaurant Serves Burgers With Colorful LEGO Brick Shaped Buns

February 8, 2017

A History of ‘Basic English’, A Language Economy That Limits Vocabulary to a Mere 850 Words

February 2, 2017

An Explanation for Why People Don’t Often See ‘B’ Batteries

November 9, 2016

A Handy Arsenal of Rarely Used Elegant Insults

November 17, 2016

Movie & Television Spin-Offs That Almost Happened

October 17, 2016

China Opens the World’s Largest Ship Elevator at Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River

September 27, 2016

How Certain Words In English That Don’t Seem to Be Related Actually Come From the Same Source

September 2, 2016

A Competitive List of Interesting Facts About the Olympic Games

August 11, 2016

The Surprisingly Long Histories of Expressions Commonly Used in the Modern Lexicon

November 2, 2016