Trivia Of The Day February 22

The largest known specimen of colossal squid was captured on February 22, 2007 by a New Zealand fishing vessel off the coast of Antarctica. That individual weighed 495 kilograms (1,091 lb) and measured around 10 metres (33 ft). This specimen is the largest invertebrate ever found.

Lexicographer Noah Webster is credited for introducing such distinctive American spellings as "color," for British "colour." However many of his changes never stuck such as medicine=medicin, ache=ake, soup=soop, tongue=tung, women=wimmen, and weather=wether.

 

The most complex language to voice is !Xóõ, spoken mostly in Botswana—it has 112 distinct sounds, while English has about 40. About 70 per cent of words in !Xoo (including !Xoo itself) begin with one of 83 types of click.

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